OCTOBER 15, 1861:
Merriwether Jeff Thompson, a failed
applicant to West Point, the Virginia Military Institute, and to Missouri
Governor Claiborne Fox Jackson’s Missouri Guards, promotes himself to General
and takes his Partisan Rangers freelance, burning the Big River Bridge, near
Potosi, Missouri. Thompson would become known as the “Swamp Fox of the Confederacy.”
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