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The Missouri General Assembly passed the "Military Bill" on May 11, 1861, in direct response to the Camp Jackson Affair in St. Louis the previous day. The final version of the act approved on May 14 authorized the Governor of Missouri, Claiborne Fox Jackson, to disband the old Missouri Volunteer Militia and reform it as the Missouri State Guard to resist a feared invasion by the Union Army.
Missouri did not have an official flag until Major-General Sterling Price, commander of the Missouri State Guard, [3] ordered on June 5, 1861: . Each regiment will adopt the State flag, made of blue merino, 6 by 5 feet, with the Missouri coat-of-arms in gold gilt on each side.
At the Battle of Pea Ridge in March 1862, Price commanded a mixed force that contained both Confederate soldiers from Missouri and elements of the Missouri State Guard. [5] By July 1862, almost all of the Missouri State Guard had left the unit to join Confederate States Army units. [6] The list of Missouri Union Civil War units is shown separately.
The Missouri Volunteer Militia (MVM) was the state militia organization of Missouri, before the formation of the Missouri State Guard in the American Civil War.. Prior to the Civil War, Missouri had an informal state militia that could be called up by the governor for emergencies or annual drill "in accordance with the Missouri State Statutes of 1854."
The state of Missouri authorized and created state defense forces during each of the world wars.As a response to the United States' entrance into World War I, the United States Congress passed the Home Guard Act of 1917, which allowed the states to create home guards, which could receive surplus weaponry from the federal government. [3]
Flags are being lowered to half-staff across the U.S. through March 27 to honor the life of Madeleine Albright, the first female secretary of state.
In 1961, her son Allen gave the flag to the State of Missouri, where it was put on display until it began to deteriorate. In 1988, elementary students raised enough money to restore the flag in honor of its 75 anniversary, [ 1 ] and it is currently displayed in the James C. Kirkpatrick State Information Center in Jefferson City, Missouri.
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