There was also a camp in Lindell's Grove, at the end of Olive, Street, under command of General D.M.Frost, a Northern man, a graduate of West Point, in open sympathy with the Southern leaders.

This camp was nominally a State camp of instruction, but, beyond doubt, was in the interest of the Southern cause, designed to be used against the national authority in the event of the General Government's attempting to coerce the Southern Confederacy.

General William S.Harvey was in command of the Department of Missouri, and resided in his own house, on Fourth Street, below Market; and there were five or six companies of United States troops in the arsenal, commanded by Captain N.Lyon; throughout the city, there had been organized, almost exclusively out of the German part of the population, four or five regiments of "Home Guards," with which movement Frank Blair, B.Gratz Brown, John M.Schofield, Clinton B.Fisk, and others, were most active on the part of the national authorities.
Frank Blair's brother Montgomery was in the cabinet of Mr.Lincoln at Washington, and to him seemed committed the general management of affairs in Missouri.
The newspapers fanned the public excitement to the highest pitch, and threats of attacking the arsenal on the one hand, and the mob of d--d rebels in Camp Jackson on the other, were bandied about.

I tried my best to keep out of the current, and only talked freely with a few men; among them Colonel John O'Fallon, a wealthy gentleman who resided above St.Louis.

He daily came down to my office in Bremen, and we walked up and down the pavement by the hour, deploring the sad condition of our country, and the seeming drift toward dissolution and anarchy.