erates that an assault upon the works would be made on July 4th, General Grant deeming it unnecessary to waste human life to accomplish an event that was, certain to transpire in a very short time from the scarcity of food and exhaustion of the garrison.

In the relating of some of the events from the surrender of Camp Jackson to the surrender of Vicksburg, the purpose was to refer only to the commands in which soldiers from St. Louis were identified, and beyond what has been said no attempt will be made to follow them further to their final surrender. After remaining in the camps of Enterprise and Demopolis for some time, the army was released from parole and reorganized and sent to the support of General Joseph E. Johnston, who made a campaign in front of General Sherman's march on Atlanta that will be handed down and live in history as one of the most able and masterly military efforts that was ever performed by an army. Before leaving Demopolis a reorganization of the artillery also became imperative, and from the remains of Guibor's, Wade's and Landis' batteries one was formed which retained the name of Guibor, as he was appointed captain. The lieutenants were, first, Richard Walsh; second, Edward McBride; third, A. W. Harris. With six Napoleon guns it was attached to Cockrell's brigade, Polk's division of Johnston's army. At Kenesaw Mountain, Lawrence Murphy was elected first lieutenant and Samuel M. Kennard second lieutenant of the battery, in consequence of the death of one and the wounding of two officers under the concentrated fire of forty pieces of Sherman's artillery. Besides the loss of life already mentioned in Bowen's old regiment at the battle of Franklin, the death of three St. Louisans is remembered. Captain Cunniff and Lieutenants Marnell and Crow, of the Fifth Missouri, who were members of Captain Joe Kelly's original company, were killed in the same fight and fel! within twenty feet of each other.

It would be a great pleasure, if space allowed it, to follow the fortunes of the gallant men who left their homes in the city and State at large to fight for State rights, in which they had been educated to believe as a doctrine of government. Many perished in the strife and many were spared to return into the localities they had left to begin over again civil life, and by their industry and in

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telligence repair their own shattered fortunes and also aid in building up a prosperous future for the city and State.

Major General Sterling Price returned to St. Louis broken in health and died in 1867 at the age of fifty-nine years. His chief of staff, Colonel Thomas L. Snead, came back also to St. Louis, but finally made his home in New York. He was a lawyer by profession, and was a gallant and faithful officer, who understood the duties of his position and was a great acquisition to the army. He had all the qualities and polished manners of a gentleman. He was most companionable and had a large fund of both knowledge and anecdote at his disposal to draw on, when occasion required it, to enliven his comrades and turn many a moment that otherwise would have been gloomy into one of pleasure. He wrote a book which he called "The Fight for Missouri," a most impartial relation of facts connected with the stirring events of that time. To the future historian this work will be a valuable one, written as it is without prejudice. He died suddenly in New York and his remains were brought to St. Louis and interred in Bellefontaine. Colonel James M. Loughborough returned and became identified with the Iron Mountain Railroad, then owned by the late Thomas Allen, to whom he was a great acquisition in the management of the land department. was accidentally killed at Little Rock by the explosion of his shotgun. General D. M. Frost also returned to his old home in St. Louis. He was born near Schenectady, New York, in 1823, and is now, at the age of seventy-five, a well-preserved, soldierly-looking

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The following list contains many, but not all of the names of the Southern veterans who returned to St. Louis, with other names of soldiers who fought for the South and made their homes there and became identified with its material interests after the war:

R. P. Annan, Patrick Ahearn, Ben Adler, Dr. R. C. Atkinson, Lewis D. Allen, Jr., James W. Allen, Alexander G. Anderson, William Bull, James Bannerman, F. P. Bronaugh, N. R. Black, C. P. Bayse, Wallace Butler, C. W. Branch, Dr. J. P. Bryson, M. Bernheimer, Thomas B. Blake, Joseph Boyce, W. P. Barlow, John Bull, R. A. Bakewell, O. W. Barrett, W. G. Blakey, Howard Brothers, Martin Burke, W. H. Biggs, William

Barnett, Given Campbell, W. H. Clopton, David W. Caruth, W. L. Cassidy, Ed Cunningham, Jr., E. P. Creecy, Seth W. Cobb, George J. Chapman, Philip Chew, N. V. Cameron, D. N. Currie, Luther H. Conn, John J. Corkery, Frank Carter, Ward Childs, Frank Curtis, John Cumminskey, J. R. Daugherty, Joseph T. Donovan, Dr. H. C. Dalton, John N. Drummond, James N. Douglas, Eugene Donnelly, J. White Edwards, C. P. Ellerbe, J. F. Fortune, D. M. Frost, Henry Guibor, Frank Gaiennie, Samuel Gordon, P. B. Garesche, Michael Griffin, George H. Goddard, Edward Haren, James B. Hill, J. D. Holliday, Jerome Hill, R. R. Hutchinson, Ewing Hill, S. D. Hardaway, W. B. Harrison, G. A. Hayward, William F. Haines, Warwick Hough, B. Newton Hart, W. S. Havens, Claiborne B. Hunt, C. O. Hitchcock, Walter D. Jones, Lorraine F. Jones, F. N. Johnson, John G. Kelly, Samuel M. Kennard, L. D. Kingsland, W. Clark Kennerly, Joseph Kelly, James Kelly, Louis T. Kretschmar, C. Leslie T. Kretschmar, C. Leslie Kretschmar, White Kennett, Dr. J. A. Leavy, James M. Loughborough, F. X. LaBruyere, John A. Ladd, Robert McCulloch, Patrick Mulcahey, R. J. Medley, Governor John S. Marmaduke, Dr. E. C. Michel, Edgar Miller, George J. Mook, Dr. J. J. Miller, J. R. Moseby, Dr. W. M. McPheeters, James. H. McNamara, R. T. Morrison, A. W. Moise, John S. Mellon, Dr. S. Gratz Moses, Michael McMahon, John Meehan, Minor Meriwether, Dr. S. P. Nidelet, Dr. J. C. Nidelet, Frank Noel, John K. Newman, Dennis O'Brien, S. M. Phelan, W. M. Price, R. A. Pendleton, Celsus Price, James Peterson, R. M. Powell, Joseph C. Piggoft, J. R. Purvis, E. C. Robbins, C. C. Rainwater, Dr. P. G. Robinson, Rev. P. G. Robert, Russell Riley, William Robinson, A. W. Stewart, A. C. Stewart, George H. Small, Dr. H. N. Spencer, E. H. Sublett, Dr. I. G. W. Steedman, Edgar Skinner, Robert H. Stockton, R. R. Southard, George W. Sale, Peter Saugrain, Thomas L. Snead, Wright Schaumburg, Alonzo W. Slayback, E. J. Styles, Peyton Skipworth, William Smizer, Ben Von Phul, Frank Von Phul, L. B. Valliant, Dr. Charles Vastine, John Waddell, S. D. Winter, John W. Wray, Dr. William Webb, H. W. Williams, W. H. Weller, Hunt P. Wilson, Thomas H. West, Thomas Warren and T. M. Wright.

It is sad to think of those who never did re

turn, but died like men in fighting for and upholding a cause that was to them a sacred one. Among those gallant and chosen spirits were John S. Bowen, Emmet McDonald, John M. Wimer, William Chappell, Sam Farrington, William Wade, Early Stein, Rock Champion, Churchill Clark, Wallace Hartley, James Fanning, Hugh A. Garland, Thomas T. Tunstall, James George, Ed Blennerhassett, W. C. P. Carrington, S. O. Coleman, Charles L. Rodgers, George O'Flaherty, Samuel Howarth, Joseph Dean, Samuel Kennerly, Edward Murray, A. J. Byrne, Aubrey Howard, William Crow, A. B. Barnett, Peter L. Fitzwilliams, Edward Fagan, Lewis B. Beakey, Sergeant Parker, William Dunnica, Thomas Shelley and Girard A. Foote.

The foregoing statement of events must be regarded and taken as the Confederate view of affairs in general, recording the effect of prejudices and animosities existing in St. Louis at the opening of the Civil War and afterward. Since then the softening influence of time has removed both passion and prejudice, and at this day a rational view can be taken of the motives and methods used in solving the political problems which disturbed the country, and upon the contending hosts can be bestowed the merit and praise due them for their valor and devotion to the cause they espoused and the principles that directed them. Probably there never has been a rebellion or revolution of the magnitude of our own, which left behind it as little bitterness of feeling between combatants. Whatever may be said of the politicians during the reconstruction days in which the "bloody shirt" was waved, one assertion can be repeated without successful contradiction, that between the soldiers on both sides who went into the army and fought for their principles, there never has been anything but mutual regard and respect; and in our city, the Germans who were once thought so aggressive, are now our intimate associates and friends, and few names hold a higher place in our regard as soldiers than those of Sigel, Osterhaus and others of the same nationality, equally meritorious. To illustrate and put into practical operation the good fellowship and fraternity of the old soldiers, a society has been formed of the "Veterans of the Blue and the Gray," whose annual meeting takes place in St. Louis on February 12th of

each year, Lincoln's birthday. The preamble to their constitution contains these words: "The war has been over for a generation of men. The issues which arose from it have been settled by the slow and sure processes of political, commercial and industrial evolution. Standing shoulder to shoulder, or front to front in those times which tried American manhood, we gained respect for each other's integrity and valor. We have since formed many ties and fought many peaceful battles together, binding us close as friends. Whatever our differences then, we are now all American patriots, with an abiding faith in the destiny of our country and a fervent love for her flag. Dead issues belong to impartial histories. To be true to our part we must stand for liberty, law and order, so that our beloved country may fulfill her mission in the world."

SAMUEL M. KENNARD.
JOHN G. Kelly.

Ward, Hugh C., prominent as a railway and commercial lawyer, and a member of the board of police commissioners of Kansas City, was born March 10, 1864, at Westport, Missouri. His parents are Seth E. and Mary Frances (McCarty, nee Harris) Ward. The son, Hugh Ward, was reared on the home farm. He received his primary education at a private school in Westport, and his collegiate education at William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri, and at Harvard University, being graduated with honors from the latter institution as bachelor of arts in 1886. He then entered the St. Louis Law School, and in June, 1888, received his diploma after passing a most creditable examination. In 1889 he located in Kansas City, where he was at once admitted to the bar and entered upon a practice which was gratifying from the outset, and in a short time had grown to great importance in both extent and character. Recognition of his ability as a lawyer came in 1894 in his appointment as receiver for the John J. Mastin & Co. business on dissolution of partnership. The property involved, consisting largely of real estate, amounted to more than $3,000,000, and in the disposition of these great and complicated interests he achieved signal success. He was also appointed one of the trustees to whom were committed the affairs of the Metropolitan National Bank of Kansas City.

His ability brought him appointment as local attorney for the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway at Kansas City, and as general attorney for the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railway, now in course of construction. The high estimate placed upon his legal abilities by his professional compeers found expression in his selection for the chairmanship of the Kansas City Court of Appeals Judicial Committee. He is senior member of the firm of Ward & Hadley, recognized as one of the strong law firms of the city. Personally Mr. Ward is a thoroughly accomplished lawyer, particularly well equipped in the fields of railway and corporation law. In case preparation he is thorough and exhaustive, and in presentation he is equally strong before court or jury, clear and vigorous in expression, and intensely earnest. At the same time he never oversteps the bounds of propriety, and enjoys the esteem of all his associates at the bar. A Democrat in politics, he was elected to the Legislature in 1892, and in that body was at once accorded prominence, not only as a foremost exponent of the political principles of his party, but also as a fit representative of his profession. He was made vice chairman of the judiciary committee, vice chairman of the committee on municipal corporations, and a member of the committee on constitutional amendments, and in all these positions he wielded a commanding influence. In 1898 he was appointed police commissioner by Governor Stephens, and rendered efficient service. Under the organization of the Missouri National Guard he was placed upon the staff of Governor Stephens as commissary general. Mr. Ward is a director of the National Bank of Commerce, of Kansas City. He holds membership in many prominent social and other organizations. He is a member of the Society of Colonial Wars, deriving his eligibility through lineal descent from Seth Ward, member of the Virginia House of Burgesses. He is also a member of the Benevolent Order of Elks, of the Kansas City Country Club, of the Commercial Club, of the Harvard Club of the Southwest, and of the American Bar Association. Mr. Ward was married, October 26, 1898, to Miss Vassie James, a graduate of Vassar College, and a daughter of J. Crawford James, one of the foremost business men of Kansas City. A son, Hugh C., Jr., was born of this marriage September 26, 1899.

Ward, Seth E., a pioneer trader in the Platte River region, and one of the most prominent residents of Westport, Missouri, was born March 4, 1820, in Campbell County, Virginia. His parents were Seth and Ann (Hendrick) Ward, both descended from prominent Virginia families of the colonial period. The given name of the father, Seth, was borne by the oldest sons of five generations of the Ward family, and in a more remote day one Seth Ward appears as a bishop of the Church of England. On the maternal side Seth Ward of Westport, is sixth in descent from John Goode, who served in the Virginia Colonial forces. His father died when he was but twelve years of age, and his educational advantages were necessarily limited. In 1834 he had a temporary home with Jacob Haas, of La Porte, Indiana, but two years later he returned to his native State, making the journey on foot, beginning it in December and ending it in May. After a short stay with his mother, with her gift of $25 as his sole possessions, he returned to the West. After making a short stay at Louisville, Kentucky, he went on to St. Louis, Missouri, where he found employment in a tobacco factory. After a year he journeyed for a time in Illinois, subsequently returning to St. Louis. In June, 1838, being then eighteen years of age, he went up the Missouri River, stopping at Lexington for a few days, and then passing on to Independence. A few weeks later he connected himself with a company in the employ of Captain L. P. Lupton, a fur trader, and with it traversed the uninhabited region lying between the Missouri River and the South Platte River, where was a trading post, which was reached after a journey of about six weeks. about seven years afterward he was engaged as a fur trader, for the greater part of the time in the employ of Bent & St. Vrain; during this time he was almost constantly in association with Indians, with whose language and customs he became quite familiar, and he was engaged in or witnessed scenes which have furnished themes for the historian and novelist. At one time, with a company of Thompson & Craig's traders, he crossed the Rocky Mountains to Green River, this expedition being among the first in that direction. Of this company was the famous plainsman Kit Carson, from whom he won a horse on a

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wager that no one so inexperienced could bring down a buffalo at the first attempt. Young Ward triumphed, but was thrown from his horse and rendered insensible. another time he was one of a party attacked by Digger and Navajo Indians, when one of their number was killed. During a part of the time he was in company with Francis P. Blair, afterward a distinguished soldier and statesman, with whom he maintained friendly relations. In 1845, with a capital of $1,000 acquired as a trader, he provided himself with two yoke of oxen and a small wagon, loaded with goods, and set out on a trading trip, exchanging his goods for horses and mules, making his post at Bent's Fort, on the Arkansas River. In 1847 he sold out and returned to Missouri, where he bought a larger wagon and five yoke of oxen, all the while in the employ of Bent & St. Vrain. In the spring of 1848 he sold out and resumed trading on his own account, with four wagons loaded with goods. He was so engaged for about eight years, extending his operations to the Missouri River, his business increasing to such an extent as to require the services of twenty-five wagons. In 1856 he became sutler at Fort Laramie, Wyoming, under appointment of Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War, and held that position until 1871, the business proving highly profitable. During the Civil War period he carried on a large freighting business, principally in the carriage of government supplies, accumulating a handsome fortune. In 1860 he married, and Mrs. Ward spent one winter at Fort Laramie. He made his home at Westport, Missouri, until 1863, when he removed to Nebraska City. In 1872 he established his present home at Westport, his farm of over 400 acres being one of the largest and most valuable in all that garden region, and he also invested much of his large means in that vicinity and elsewhere in Jackson County. Wise judgment and careful business habits have enabled him to largely increase his holdings, from which he derives a handsome income, amply sufficient for a life of luxurious ease and liberal expenditures in dispensing hospitality, aiding benevolences and contributing to the comfort of a large circle of relatives and friends. For over twenty years he has been a trustee of William Jewell College, and is now one of the oldest members of the official board of that institution, of which he has been a