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| Thursday April 25, 1861 |
In a daring move Captain James H. Stokes of Chicago, told to get
arms for Illinois troops from the St. Louis Arsenal, secretly took a
steamer from Alton, Illinois and late at night landed at the arsenal
wharf. He and his men removed ten thousand muskets and other
arms from under the pro-secessionist elements in St. Louis and
returned safely to Alton, where they were unloaded Friday
morning, April 26.