Expedition! St Louis: Desperate Days

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9 жыл бұрын

Produced in 1961 "Expedition! St Louis: Desperate Days" explores the Civil War, Battle of Wilson's Creek in the Missouri Ozarks - "Bloody Hill"; aerial survey and metal detectors at battle site; Union and Confederate graves at Jefferson Barracks; Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon "The Man who Saved St. Louis"; 24th Missouri Volunteer Infantry; Lyon Park on Broadway in South St. Louis; drawing/map of the old St. Louis Arsenal; newspaper announcing Lincoln wins the presidency, on the same day, Claiborne Fox Jackson, Southern sympathizer is elected Governor of Missouri; Issac Sturgeon, Asst. Treasurer of the United States in charge of Customs' House in St. Louis sends alarm to Pres. Buchanan about $400,000 in the Customs' House and fully loaded Arsenal; additional states secede. St. Louis politician, Francis Blair supports (Captain) Nathaniel Lyon. Governor Claiborne Jackson orders General Daniel Marsh Frost to seize the Arsenal; Lyon launches pre-emptive attack on Camp Jackson and takes the Confederate sympathizers captive, days of rioting in St. Louis ensues; conference to determine the future of Missouri; Lyon, with troops and arms takes boats up the Missouri river to the State Capitol and lands his troops unopposed. Illustrations of Civil War in Missouri and Battle of Wilson's Creek. Aerials over Springfield, MO. Federal cemetary in Springfield. Use of metal detectors on the battlefield; static display of artifacts found. Produced and Directed by Bill Leonard; presented by Bruce Hayward.
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@penelopesnopes6852 6 жыл бұрын

Great documentary! Thanks for posting this!

@billjohnston2858 4 жыл бұрын

I'd enjoy seeing a more up-to-date "documentary" that is independently funded and not accepting funding from and kowtowing to the Federal Government stating the now more openly-discussed and better known facts about Lyon's actions and this subject matter and not quoting, line-by-line, the Government propaganda printed in Schoolhouse History books and repeated ad infinitum. Stating that Missouri "stayed in the Union" while it was, in reality, split in half with its populations' sympathies is one example borne out by the fact that Lincoln was afraid to free Missouri, Kentucky and W. Virginia slaves with his Emancipation Proclamation because he knew doing so might push their divided populations over the edge into the C.S.A. is an example of what is not correctly covered in this production.

@billjohnston2858 6 жыл бұрын

Where is the documentary about Union "General" Nathaniel Lyon ordering the Union troops under his command to fire into the group of St. Louis Citizens protesting his actions while marching the surrendering members of Camp Jackson to Federal Prison ? There were "only" 28 St. Louisans, including women and children, killed with several more severely wounded in 1861. Add that to the command he gave in 1850's California when in command of the Union soldiers that killed roughly 40 to100 of the members of the Pomo Indian Tribe at the Bloody Island or Clear Lake Massacre ?

@hparkindc 5 жыл бұрын

Lyon was a great hero of our Union and against the evil of slavery. And no, the above is "fake history." The people killed in the Battle of Camp Jackson were mostly civilians and US soldiers who were killed in the confusion as Confederates and their sympathizers sought to block the transfer of Confederate prisoners war.

@MikeBrown-hk6iw 4 жыл бұрын

Howard Park 90% of the battles fought were Missouri militia, Jack Hinson was a real man. Lyon was a murderer that shot unarmed men. Fact! Another fact lee freed his slaves before emancipation proclamation way before grant. The Civil War was about northern secession had nothing to do with slavery the peak of the industrial revolution the union was known for taking southern property wealth and labor and it is a fact. Jack Hansen stonewall Jackson or Nathan Bedford Forrest were better men. If it wasn’t for the white plantation owner black slaves coming off of a boat from Africa would not know Jesus

@MikeBrown-hk6iw 4 жыл бұрын

Howard Park you are such a ass hat. You sir are so wrong Lyon did if fact kill Surrendering the troops from Fort Jackson to Federal prison and then massacred the civilians they were protesting. Fucking idiot. Read more than one book on the piece of shit

@billjohnston2858 4 жыл бұрын

@James Reilly I'd love to but I freely admit I know next to nothing about either group, unlike the mass murderer that has been falsely glorified, Lyon.

@billjohnston2858 4 жыл бұрын

@@hparkindc You seriously need to get educated about what a horrible, self-promoting mass-murderer Nathaniel Lyon was and quit swallowing the lies and crap that the "victors" have published about his actions in St. Louis. if you deem a Union Officer who ordered his untrained, mostly German immigrant troops to fire volleys of rifle-fire, point-blank, into a crowd of St. Louis civilians including women and little children a "HERO" , then you Sir are not only ignorant of the facts but a low-life gullible idiot.