A while back I had posted a query asking if anyone knew how Missouri's Confederate Congressmen were elected/selected. While researching another matter, I stumbled across the answer to the question--at least in regard to how they were placed into office for the Confederate Congress session for 1862-1864 (I still am unaware how the next session's Congressmen were selected). Anyway, the following is from pp. 345-346 "Missouri: The Center State, 1821-1915" Volume 1, by Walter B. Stevens, published in 1915--

"The first appeal for a Confederate army to be sent having failed, E. C. Cabell and Thomas L. Snead were made commissioners by Governor Jackson to go to Richmond and negotiate for the admission of Missouri into the Confederacy. They were acting for the 'executive power of the State.' On the 31st of October they signed an agreement with R. M. T. Hunter, the Confederate secretary of state, by which Missouri was to be admitted into the Confederacy. A call was sent out to members of the legislature which had been abolished by the convention in July. On the 2d of November those who responded to the call met at Neosho. They ratified the agreement with Secretary Hunter. Thus Missouri secured her recognition as one of the Confederate States. The Neosho body elected John B. Clark and R. S. T. Peyton, Senators, and Thomas A. Harris, Casper W. Ball, A. H. Conrad, George G. Vest, Dr. Hyer, Thomas Freeman and William M. Cooke, Representatives of Missouri in the Confederate Congress."

Any additional insights on this aspect of Missouri in the Confederacy would be welcomed.