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How did Francis Preston Blair Jr. become a Union general?

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In Congress he attacked slavery as harmful to the interests of poor whites and became an energetic Lincoln supporter in 1860. Instrumental in keeping Missouri loyal to the Union by seizing, with Nathaniel Lyon , secessionist Camp Jackson and the U.S. arsenal early in 1861, he was appointed major general of volunteers ...

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