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3rIistoriosil 3R,evie^w The State Historical Society of Missouri COLUMBIA, MISSOURI COVER DESCRIPTION: Irene Selonke's Spring Thaw, a 21-inch x 14-inch watercolor, is one of the paintings on display in the Society's Contemporary Artists Exhibition. Ms. Selonke was born in Chicago, Illinois, on September 4, 1910. She studied at the Art In stitute of Chicago, the Kansas City Art Institute and also with Joseph Fleck of Taos, New Mexico, and Olga Dormanci of Paris, France. Her works have been exhibited at the Council of American Artists, Lever House, New York; the Greater Kansas City Art Association exhibits; and the National League Amer ican Pen Women Biennial State Show, Regional State Show and National Exhibit in St. Louis, Kansas City and Salt Lake City, Utah, respectively. In addition to the contemporary artwork now on display in the Corridor Gallery, the Society is ex hibiting selected works of George Caleb Bingham and Thomas Hart Benton in the Art Gallery. The Society's art exhibitions and libraries are open to the public, 8:00 A.M.-4:30 P.M., Monday through Friday, excepting holidays. MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW Published Quarterly by THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI COLUMBIA, MISSOURI RICHARD S. BROWNLEE EDITOR MARY K. DAINS ASSOCIATE EDITOR JAMES W. GOODRICH ASSOCIATE EDITOR The MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW is owned by the State Historical Society of Missouri and is published quarterly at 201 South Eighth Street, Columbia, Missouri 65201. Send communi cations, business and editorial correspondence and change of address to The State Historical Society of Missouri, Corner of Hitt and Lowry Streets, Columbia, Missouri 65201. Second class postage is paid at Columbia, Missouri. The REVIEW is sent free to all members of The State Historical VOLUME LXX Society of Missouri. Membership dues in the Society are $2.00 a year or $40 for an individual life membership. The Society assumes NUMBER 3 no responsibility for statements made by contributors to the magazine. APRIL 1976 THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI The State Historical Society of Missouri, heretofore organized under the laws of the State, shall be the trustee of this State—Laws of Missouri, 1899, R. S. of Mo., 1969, Chapter 183, as revised 1973. OFFICERS 1974-1977 ELMER ELLIS, Columbia, President *L. E. MEADOR, Springfield, First Vice President RUSSELL V. DYE, Liberty, Second Vice President JACK STAPLETON, SR., Stanberry, Third Vice President MRS. AVIS TUCKER, Warrensburg, Fourth Vice President REV. JOHN F. BANNON, S.J., St. Louis, Fifth Vice President SHERIDAN A. LOGAN, St. Joseph, Sixth Vice President ALBERT M. PRICE, Columbia, Treasurer RICHARD S. BROWNLEE, Columbia, Director, Secretary and Librarian TRUSTEES Permanent Trustees, Former Presidents of the Society WILLIAM AULL III, Lexington GEORGE A. ROZIER, Jefferson City RUSH H. LIMBAUGH, Cape Girardeau LEO J. ROZIER, Perryville T. BALLARD WATTERS, Marshfield Term Expires At Annual Meeting, 1976 JAMES W. BROWN, Harrisonville ALFRED O. FUERBRINGER, St. Louis RICHARD J. CHAMIER, Moberly JAMES OLSON, Kansas City WILLIAM R. DENSLOW, Trenton ARVARH STRICKLAND, Columbia ELMER ELLIS, Columbia T. BALLARD WATTERS, Marshfield Term Expires At Annual Meeting, 1977 LEWIS E. ATHERTON, Columbia R. I. COLBORN, Paris ROBERT A. BOWLING, Montgomery City W. W. DALTON, St. Louis FRANK P. BRIGGS, Macon RICHARD B. FOWLER, Kansas City HENRY A. BUNDSCHU, Independence VICTOR A. GIERKE, Louisiana Term Expires At Annual Meeting, 1978 GEORGE MCCUE, St. Louis RONALD L. SOMERVILLE, Chillicothe *L. E. MEADOR, Springfield JACK STAPLETON, SR., Stanberry W. WALLACE SMITH, Independence JOSEPH WEBBER, St. Louis ROBERT M. WHITE, Mexico EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE The twenty-seven Trustees, the President and the Secretary of the Society, the Governor, Secretary of State, State Treasurer, President of the University of Missouri and Chancellor of the University of Missouri-Columbia constitute the Executive Committee. FINANCE COMMITTEE Five members of the Executive Committee appointed by the President, who by virtue of his office constitutes the sixth member, compose the Finance Com mittee. WILLIAM AULL III, Lexington, Chairman LEWIS E. ATHERTON, Columbia ELMER ELLIS, Columbia WILLIAM R. DENSLOW, Trenton GEORGE A. ROZIER, Jefferson City LEO J. ROZIER, Perryville •Deceased NEW SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS The State Historical Society of Missouri is always interested in obtaining new members. For more than seventy years thousands of Missourians who have be longed to the Society have been responsible primarily for building its great research collections and libraries. They have given it the support which makes it the largest organization of its type in the United States. The quest for interested new members goes on continually, and your help is solicited in obtaining |fj| them. In every family, and in every community, there are individuals who are sincerely interested in the collection, preservation and dissemination of the his tory of Missouri. Why not nominate these people for membership? Annual dues are only $2.00, Life Memberships $40.00. Richard S. Brownlee Director and Secretary State Historical Society of Missouri Hitt and Lowry Streets Columbia, Missouri 65201 311IS[§JS!MS[aiMM«llIg][§lllSlg]S]l«l[Mll«l§l[§lSl[«ll iii *][giMK][gg]El[K][x THE FLOYD C. SHOEMAKER HISTORY AWARD The State Historical Society of Missouri takes pleasure in announcing the second round of competi tion for the Floyd C. Shoemaker History Award. This $100.00 annual award was created by the late Mr. Shoemaker, the long-time secretary of the Society, for the advancement of Missouri history in the universities, colleges and high schools throughout the state. The annual award alternates every other year between junior class students in Missouri colleges and universities and senior high school students in Mis souri. The 1976 award of $100.00 will be presented for the best article written by a junior class student in a Missouri college or university. The award will be presented at the 1976 annual meeting of the State Historical Society. Articles nominated for the award must relate to the history of Missouri, either to events or personal ities. The maximum length of an article is 5,000 words and a bibliography must be included. Each university and college must select a panel of judges to nominate its best article by a junior class student. Only one article may be submitted from each school. Each article will be judged against other nomi nations by the Department of History of the Univer sity of Missouri-Columbia. Articles submitted for this award will become the property of the State Historical Society of Missouri. The prize-winning article will be considered for publication in the MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW. The final date for submission of articles is July 1, 1976. The articles must be sent to the State Historical Society of Missouri, Room 2, Elmer Ellis Library, Hitt and Lowry Streets, Columbia, Missouri 65201. ppraKSKrasfflfflsssra^^ AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE The business office of the State Historical So ciety of Missouri asks that members of the Society, who are moving or have moved to a new location, please inform the Society of changes of address, as soon as possible. To remail a returned issue of the REVIEW under new postal rates is very expensive. Due to this rising cost the Society has no recourse but to pass on this remailing expense to those members who have failed to send change of address notifications. Regretfully this action appears to be the only solution to a perplexing problem. Dues for member ship in the Society are two dollars. To remail the REVIEW, it now costs one dollar, or one-half of the membership dues. I m Changes of address should be sent to: || § State Historical Society of Missouri Corner of Hitt and Lowry Streets Columbia, Missouri 65201 CONTENTS MISSOURI'S FORGOTTEN GENERAL: M. JEFF THOMPSON AND THE CIVIL WAR. By Donal J. Stanton, Goodwin F. Berquist, Jr., and Paul C Bowers 237 URBAN POLITICS IN JACKSONIAN ST. LOUIS: TRADITIONAL VALUES IN CHANGE AND CONFLICT. By Maximilian Reichard 259 BASE HOSPITAL 21 AND THE GREAT WAR. By Donna Bingham Munger 272 THE TRUMAN ADMINISTRATION'S FAIR DEAL FOR BLACK AMERICA. By Philip H. Vaughan 291 ROBERT BEVERLY PRICE II: BANKER AND PHILANTHROPIST. By John C Crighton 306 HISTORICAL NOTES AND COMMENTS Editorial Policy 315 Views from the Past: The Photo Album of Franz Schwarzer 316 News in Brief 319 Erratum 320 Local Historical Societies 321 Gifts 333 Missouri History in Newspapers 339 Missouri History in Magazines 343 In Memoriam 346 BOOK REVIEWS 348 BOOK NOTES 353 INDEX TO VOLUME LXX, NOS. 1, 2 & 3 359 QUINN CHAPEL A.M.E. CHURCH Inside Back Cover Missouri's Forgotten General: M Jeff Thompson and the Civil War BY DONAL J. STANTON, GOODWIN F. BERQUIST, JR., AND PAUL C. BOWERS* Born at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, on January 22, 1826, Meri wether (M. Jeff) Thompson was descended from two old Virginia families. His father, Captain Meriwether Thompson, was a native of Hanover County where Patrick Henry lived, and at the time of Jeffs birth was assigned to the paymaster's department of the United States Army at Harpers Ferry. Jeff Thompson's grandfather served as an officer in the Revolutionary War. •Donal J. Stanton is associate professor of Speech at Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield. He has a Ph.D. in Communication from Ohio State University, Columbus. Goodwin F. Berquist, Jr., is professor of Com munication at Ohio State University. He has a Ph.D. in Speech from Pennsyl vania State University, University Park. Paul C. Bowers is assistant professor of History at Ohio State University and has a Ph.D. in American History from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. This article is based in part upon the authors' forthcoming edited version of "The Civil War Experiences of General M. Jeff Thompson." 237 238 Missouri Historical Review M.