Missouri- "The Governor called for fifty thousand troops to “rise and drive out ignominiously the invaders,” as he styled Union citizens who had sprung to arms to defend their own homes. In the frenzy caused by the first bloodshed, Sterling Price went over to the Rebels, taking with him about one third of the State Convention, over which he was presiding, and to which he had been elected as an unconditional Unionist."

David Upton