MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW VOLUME XCIV OCTOBER 1999-JULY 2000 JAMES W. GOODRICH LYNN WOLF GENTZLER Editor Associate Editor J. SCOTT PARKER SHANNA WALLACE Information Specialist Information Specialist The Missourt HIsToRICAL REVIEW (ISSN 0026-6582) is published quarterly by the State Historical Society of Missouri, 1020 Lowry Street, Columbia, MO 65201-7298. Copyright © 2000 by The State Historical Society of Missouri CONTRIBUTORS VOLUME XCIV, Nos. 1, 2, 3, AND 4 AUSTIN, DavID C., historian, Missouri Department of Transportation. BoMAN, DENNIS K., adjunct professor, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois. BROWN-KUBISCH, LINDA, reference specialist, State Historical Society of Missouri. Burt, LARRY W., associate professor, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield. CURRAN, THOMAS F., assistant professor, Saint Louis University, and man- aging editor of the Journal of Policy History. DIN, GILBERT C., professor emeritus, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado. JONES, JONATHAN M., adjunct professor, State Technical Institute of Memphis and the University of Memphis, Tennessee. MANRING, MAuRICE M., manager, media relations, University of Missouri. MILLER, CHANDRA, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University. MONTGOMERY, CHRISTINE, photograph specialist, State Historical Society of Missouri. Morton, JOHN D., Ph.D. candidate, University of Virginia, Charlottesville. MUEHL, SIEGMAR, professor emeritus, University of Iowa, lowa City. PHILLIPS, CHRISTOPHER, assistant professor, University of Cincinnati. ROLL, JAROD H., student, Missouri Southern State College, Joplin. CONTENTS VOLUME XCIV, Nos. 1, 2, 3, AND 4 CALCULATED CONFEDERATE: CLAIBORNE Fox JACKSON AND THE STRATEGY FOR SECESSION IN MISSOURI. By Christopher Phillips CAPTAIN FRANCISCO RiU Y MORALES AND THE BEGINNINGS OF SPANISH RULE IN MISSOURI. By Gilbert C. Din “A HIGH WALL AND A DEEP DITCH”: THOMAS HART BENTON AND THE COMPROMISE OF 1850. By John D. Morton “T AM HOPING FOR A SPEEDY REUNION”: THE CIVIL WAR CORRESPONDENCE OF PRIVATE HENRY HOBERG. By Jarod H. Roll IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS AS A PARTISAN TOOL: THE TRIAL OF JUDGE DaAvID Topp. By Dennis K. Boman ISIDOR BUSH AND THE BUSHBERG VINEYARDS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY. By Siegmar Muehl Memory, MYTH, AND Musty RECORDS: CHARLES WOODSON’S MISSOURI CAVALRY IN THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, Parts | and 2. By Thomas F. Curran 25, 160 “A PAYING PROPOSITION”: THE JEROME BRIDGE IN PHELPS COUNTY. By David C. Austin THE PRESIDENT AND THE EMPEROR: How SAMUEL SPAHR LAWS FOUND AN ELEPHANT AND Lost His Jos. By Maurice M. Manring SHOW ME Missour! HISTorRY: CELEBRATING THE CENTURY, Parts 1, 2, and 3. By Linda Brown-Kubisch and Christine Montgomery _ 176, 303, 434 “TITLE PAGE TO A GREAT TRAGIC VOLUME”: THE IMPACT OF THE MISSOURI CRISIS ON SLAVERY, RACE, AND REPUBLICANISM IN THE THOUGHT OF JOHN C. CALHOUN AND JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. By Chandra Miller UNLIKELY ACTIVISM: O. K. ARMSTRONG AND FEDERAL INDIAN POLICY IN THE MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY. By Larry W. Burt WHEN EXPECTATIONS EXCEED REALITY: THE MISSOURI EXPEDITION OF 1819. By Jonathan M. Jones