Chapter 4

A Special State Militia--Brigadier-General of the Missouri Militia --A Hostile Committee Sent to Washington--The Missouri Quarrel of 1862--In Command of the "Army of the Frontier"--Absent Through Illness--Battle of Prairie Grove--Compelled to be Inactive-- Transferred to Tennessee--In Command of Thomas's Old Division of the Fourteenth Corps--Reappointed Major-General--A Hibernian "Striker."