> ...most missourians had voted for bell or douglas; breckinridge's support was largely confined to the lightly populated south central counties and lincoln's votes came from essentially just german immigrants in st. louis and springfield.[9] reminder that l*ncoln's hired goons led by nathaniel lyon illegally arrested the missouri state legislature in may 1861 to install a puppet regime and that lyon met his deserved end three months later at the hands of southern patriots.
Gadsden