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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.
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Less than a month after the war’s first shots were fired at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, the first instance of bloodshed in Missouri occurred when a volunteer Union Army regiment captured a unit of secessionists at Camp Jackson outside the city of St. Louis.
The Camp Jackson Affair was an incident of civil unrest in the American Civil War on May 10, 1861, when Union military forces clashed with civilians on the streets of St. Louis, Missouri, resulting in the deaths of at least 28 people and injuries to another 100.
Around May 1 Jackson sent Daniel Frost and several groups of Missouri Militia (mostly from the St. Louis area) to create an encampment at Lindell Grove, which was at the corner of Lindell and Grand. Plan of Camp Jackson from contemporary sources.
On April 23, Jackson refused to meet President Lincoln’s call for troops. Instead, he ordered the Missouri Volunteer Militia to muster all across the state. In answer to Gov. Jackson’s call, close to 1,000 men made camp in St. Louis’s Lindell Grove.
Camp Jackson Affair. Union Captain Nathaniel Lyon leads 6,000 federal Missouri Volunteers and U.S. Regulars against the secessionist "Camp Jackson" arsenal. He then marches 669 of the captured militiamen through the streets of St. Louis, prompting a riot.
