He was so crestfallen that I believe if I had ordered him to leave the car he would have gone quietly out, saying to himself: "More Yankee oppression." By nightfall the late defenders of Camp Jackson were all within the walls of the St.Louis arsenal, prisoners of war.

The next day I left St.Louis for Mattoon, Illinois, where I was to muster in the regiment from that congressional district.

This was the 21st Illinois infantry, the regiment of which I subsequently became colonel.

I mustered one regiment afterwards, when my services for the State were about closed.
Brigadier-General John Pope was stationed at Springfield, as United States mustering officer, all the time I was in the State service.

He was a native of Illinois and well acquainted with most of the prominent men in the State.