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The Camp Jackson Affair was an incident in the American Civil War on 10 May 1861, when Union military forces captured a force of pro-secession state militia at Camp Jackson, just outside Saint Louis, Missouri, and subsequently clashed with pro-secession rioters in the city. ==Background== Missouri was a slave state, and many of its leaders favored secession and joining the Confederacy. However, there were relatively few slaves and slaveowners in Missouri, and only a minority favored secession. Over half the population of Saint Louis were immigrants, and most were recent German immigrants, who hated slavery and opposed secession. (Many were "Forty-Eighters" who had been active in the failed 1848 German revolution.) Both pro- and anti-secession factions organized military and paramilitary forces in Missouri in early 1861. Secessionists organized as "Minutemen", often assisted by state officials. On 13 February, Brigadier General Daniel M. Frost enrolled five companies of St. Louis-area Minutemen as a new Second Regiment of the Missouri Volunteer Militia. That same month, a new law banned militia activity outside the framework of the Missouri Volunteer Militia, forcing Unionist activists to organize in secret. Also in February, Missouri elected a Constitutional Convention, to amend the state constitution and decide the issue of secession. On 21 March, the Convention voted 98 to 1 against secession, but also voted not supply weapons or men to either side if war broke out. It then adjourned. On 20 April, eight days after the start of the war at Fort Sumter, a pro-Confederate mob at Liberty, Missouri, seized the Liberty Arsenal and made off with about 1,000 rifles and muskets. This sparked fears that Confederates would also seize the much larger St. Louis Arsenal, which had nearly 40,000 rifles and muskets — the largest stockpile in any slave state. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Camp Jackson Affair」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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