CONTENTS xxiii CHAPTER XXVI CREATION OF NEW COUNTIES St. Francois County — Scott County — Organization and Settlement of Stoddard County — Ripley County — Pioneers of Dunklin County — Reynolds, Butler and Bol- linger Counties — Pemiscot County — St. Francois Levee District — Courts of the County and Prominent Citizens — Iron and Carter Counties — Founders of the Eight Old Counties. 302 SECTION V CHAPTER XXVII GENERAL MOVEMENTS Position op the State — Number op Soldiers Furnished — Appointment op a Major-Gen- ERAL OF THE StaTE GuARDS — GENERAL S. WaTKINS — GENERAL THOMPSON — SKIRMISHES IN August, 1861 — General Grant — Fortifications at Cape Girardeau^Martial Law — Thompson's Raid into Jefferson County — Situation in November, 1861 — Battle of Bel- mont — Early Months of 1862 — Capture of New Madrid and Island Ten — Skirmishes and Raids op 1863 — Marmaduke's Invasion — Capture op General Jeff Thompson — Price's Raid Conditions After the "War. 327 CHAPTER XXVIII REGIMENTAL HISTORIES Union Troops Organized— Home Guards and State Militia— Third, Fifth, Sixty-Fourth, Sixty-eighth, Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, Second, Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth and Forty-seventh Infantry — Sixth and Tenth Missouri Cavalry — Engineer Regiment, West Missouri Volunteers — Twenty-third and Twenty-ninth Regiments of Enrolled Militia — Other Commands of State Guards — Ninth and Second Infantry — Noted Confederate Organizations. 341 SECTION VI CHAPTER XXIX MOVEMENTS SINCE THE CIVIL WAR Railiwad Building— Drainage— Wealth — Manufacturing — Mining — Transportation- Resources— School* and Churches — Local Option — Population — Organizations — Spanish-American War. 357 i
