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Re: June 11th, 1861 Declaration of War

So the U.S. Constitution provides that the President is commander in chief of the armed forces, and that Congress is vested with the power to declare war. Which Amendment is it that provides one star generals the power to formally declare war? Not finding it. At best, you had a general a couple of weeks removed from being a captain who "blew his cork." Only Congress can declare war, which it did not. So to answer your question, the reason why June 11, 1861 is not remembered as the date that the United States declared war on a state in the Union is because the United States never declared war on a state in the Union on that date. As for the assertion that Lyon claimed he would see every man woman and child in Missouri dead, there wasn't any claim of that statement having been made until long after the meeting, and then only by an aide to Price. He certainly wouldn't have had a reason to make that up, would he? One person told me once the claim by the aide must have been true because Lyon never refuted it. But wasn't Lyon dead? A better place to have this conversation is in the news and views section since the original question posed was meant to stir up a debate.

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