The St. Louis Exiles: Summer of 1863

Here is information via a couple of newspaper articles from the Richmond Daily Dispatch (The Daily Dispatch) that cover the expulsion (or imminent expulsion) of Confederate sympathizers from the St. Louis area in the summer of 1863, during the Vicksburg and Gettysburg campaigns.

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"The St. Louis Exiles" (June 27, 1863). Description is made of the who and the why. For two women exiles, there is a detailed list of items they were allowed to take with them, including quinine, morphine, camphor, calomel (mercury chloride), laudanum, paregoric, castor oil, Seidlitz powders, mosquito bars, and soap. Delays were granted in some cases: "Ashton P. Johnson and family were to have left yesterday in the City of Alton, but he received ten days additional time to close up his business affairs in St. Louis. . . . Additional time was in like manner granted to Edward W.Johnston." 

A full-text electronic copy of the entire article may be found here.

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"Edward William Johnston" [June 29, 1863]

In the list of names of persons expelled by the Yankee Despotism from St. Louis, is that of Edward William Johnston. It appears that though ordered away, he was allowed a few days' time to prepare. Mr. Johnston is a brother of General Joseph E. Johnston, and is well known in Virginia and the South. He was the popular party letter writer under the name of "Il Segretario," and has been connected with the press here and in other Southern cities. He is a gentleman of extensive literary acquirements, and one of the most pungent writers for the press of his day. He is now an old man, and has for some years resided in St. Louis, where he was Librarian of the large Commercial or Mercantile Library of that city. The Federal officials have been assiduous in their attentions to him. They have frequently presented the oath to him; but he spurned it as an intolerably bitter draft of medicine, with execration. Finally being ordered to swallow it or depart from St. Louis, he chose the latter alternative, and we suppose he will return to Virginia, his native State.

A full-text electronic copy of the entire article may be found here. The only substantive difference is that "Il Segretario" is spelled incorrectly in it. 

These articles provide helpful context for additional US Provost Marshal documents pertaining to Edward William Johnston, to be posted in the near future. 

Map is from Wiki Commons (attributed to "Andrei nacu").