The Missouri State Guard (MSG) was a military force established by the Missouri General Assembly on May 11, 1861. While not a formation of the Confederate States Army, the Missouri State Guard fought alongside Confederate troops and, at various times, served under Confederate officers.
1st Regiment of the Missouri State Guard at Camp Lewis, 1860
The Camp Jackson affair, also known as the Camp Jackson massacre, occurred during the American Civil War on May 10, 1861, when a volunteer Union Army regiment captured a unit of secessionists at Camp Jackson, outside the city of St. Louis, in the divided slave state of Missouri.
"Terrible Tragedy at St. Louis, Mo.", wood engraving originally published in the New York Illustrated News, 1861
St. Louis Riot
Monument to Nathaniel Lyon with the arsenal in the background