This engraving appeared on page 657 of the October 19, 1861 edition of Harper’s Weekly, and depicts Missouri Governor Claiborne Jackson addressing members of Union Colonel James Mulligan’s command, after the Battle of Lexington, September 20, 1861.
Following its surrender, Colonel Mulligan’s brigade was ordered by Jackson to be drawn up in solid column so he could address the captured Federals. Harper’s reported:
“He then addressed them in harsh language, demanding what business they had to make war in the State of Missouri, adding when Missouri needed troops from Illinois she would ask for them. After upbraiding them for some length of time, this wretched traitor at last told them they might go home, when they dispersed with feelings which can be more easily imagined than described.”
Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield Library Collection
