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Excerpt from Publications of the Southern History Association, 1898, Vol. 2
Rev. Dr. P. D. Stephenson, Of Woodstock, Virginia, gave A Boy's Account of 'the Camp Jackson Massacre, ' a deplorable event brought on by the friction Of Northern and Southern sentiment in St. Louis, Missouri, in May, 1861. Dr. Stephenson was a school boy at the time, and described what he himself witnessed. Since coming East he had not found general familiarity with this occurrence which aided to crystalize feeling in the border State of Missouri.
General Marcus J. Wright presented Some Account of the Transfer Of the Territory of Louisiana from France to the United States. He drew on the archives Of the State Department for letters by national and local Officials when the Spanish authorities had produced a crisis by plac ing Offensive restrictions on commercial intercourse at New Orleans. Feeling was excited and a force Of several hun dred men gathered in Tennessee to go down the river, but the matter was settled by Spain's yielding the possessions to France that in turn ceded them to the United States. The transfer was consummated at Jackson Square, one of the most historic spots in New Orleans.
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