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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical: officers of civil and military organizations. (search)
fficer becoming widely recognized. In 1860 he was elected governor of the State, and was inaugurated January 4, 1861 In his address on this occasion he declared that Missouri could not endure the doctrine of coercion, but must adhere to the cause of the South, and recommended a State convention to determine the will of the people. In May following he called an extra session of the legislature and recommended placing the State in an attitude of defense against Northern aggression. On September 16, 1861, Governor Jackson abandoned the capitol, on the advance of the Federal forces, and on the 26th called an extra session of the legislature at Neosho. On July 31st the State convention had declared his office vacant and appointed a new governor. He entered the army of the Confederacy with the rank of brigadier-general, but was compelled by failing health to resign, and died at Little Rock, Ark., December 6, 1862. John W. Ellis John W. Ellis, governor of North Carolina at the out