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From: "Thatcher family" <>
Subject: Re: [MO-CW] Gov. of (CSA) Missouri after Reynolds?
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 18:25:37 -0400


>
> In a message dated 7/10/01 12:51:47 AM, writes:
>
>> << In January 1865, my ancestor, Capt. Thomas Edgeworth Courtenay Confederate
>> Secret Service, on Confederate business in Liverpool, recieved a letter from
>> someone in Missouri. The second page with the signature is missing, but the
>> letter writer says he is being pressed to assume the functions of Governor
>> of his state, which as speaker pro tem of the House the law devolves upon
>> him by reason of the expiration of the term of Governor Reynolds. Can
>> anyone identify for me the writer of this letter, and tell me about his
>> history? >>
>
> I've never heard of this, and Reynold's term had not expired - interesting
> point though, since Reynolds had assumed the governoriship upon the death of
> Jackson, that term being one which would ordinarily lapse in the fall of '64
> or january of '65.


This is what another researcher wrote to me about the letter some time ago:

"This was a result of a fight going on between Governor Reynolds & Sterling
Price over the failure of the raid of summer/fall 1864 into Missouri to
capture --even temporarily-- the capital, Jefferson City. As a result,
Reynolds blasted Price as a drunk and incompetent in the press in late Dec
1864 and Price responded by attacking Reynolds legitimacy as Governor and
threatened to head a movement to have him replaced by TEC's correspondent.
Price's response referring to Reynolds as "who pretends to be, and styles
himself in it, the Governor of the state of Missouri" was printed on
1-10-1865 in the Shreveport News, so he'd obviously already talked to the
Speaker of the House to let him know what he had up his sleeve. Don't know
his name, but I can probably find out if you care --basically he's just a
pawn in the fight between Reynolds and Price."


Also, I did several yahoo/lycos/etc. searches. The closest thing to come up
was a list of officials in the Federal gov't of Missouri--this list
completely ignored the fact that there was a Confederate government at the
same time.




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Tom Thatcher

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