Tag: St. Louis Arsenal
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The Object of the Secessionists is to Seize the Arsenal Here, With Its Seventy-Five Thousand Stand of Arms
“OF VITAL AND IMMEDIATE NECESSITY” by Montgomery Blair Sibley, ©2014, blogging at Amo Probos (Nov. 12, 2014) — The fourth of my five ancestors whose actions in their time of turmoil seem to predict what I would do in the Fall of 2014, is Francis Preston Blair, Jr. He was the brother of Montgomery Blair…