I therefore gave General Prentiss the situation of the troops and the general condition of affairs, and started for St.Louis the same day.

The movement against the rebels at Greenville went no further.
From St.Louis I was ordered to Jefferson City, the capital of the State, to take command.

General Sterling Price, of the Confederate army, was thought to be threatening the capital, Lexington, Chillicothe and other comparatively large towns in the central part of Missouri.

I found a good many troops in Jefferson City, but in the greatest confusion, and no one person knew where they all were.

Colonel Mulligan, a gallant man, was in command, but he had not been educated as yet to his new profession and did not know how to maintain discipline.
I found that volunteers had obtained permission from the department commander, or claimed they had, to raise, some of them, regiments; some battalions; some companies--the officers to be commissioned according to the number of men they brought into the service.