born St. Louis Co. MO, wife of W.D. Sappington
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Drucilla was imprisoned at Gratiot Street Prison in St. Louis. She was released on April 15, 1862. See was accused of harboring secessionists on her farm in St. Louis, County. She said she was not aware of this since her farm contains 300 acres of property, 200 of which are not cleared. On September 3, 1862 Provost Marshal General Bernard G. Farrar ordered Drucilla to swear an oath of parole and pay a bond of $2,000.00. When she learned of this she fled the county for southwest Missouri, presumably to Confederate lines. On September 13, 1862, authorities found her in Iron County Missouri. She was returned to St. Louis and once again placed in Gratiot Street Prison. While in prison she helped the notorious Confederate mail carrier Absalom Grimes escape. Having taken her oath and posted bond, she left prison on October 14th. Drucilla along with 10 other women and 13 men, all St. Louisans, were found guilty of aiding Confederates and were put aboard the steamer Belle Memphis to be banished to Confederate-held territory south of Memphis. In Memphis the prisoners were transferred to wagons and traveled 50 miles east to LaGrange, Tennessee. They were then sent to Holly Springs, Mississippi and left there by Union cavalry to be on their own. Drucilla somehow returned to Missouri. As late as March 1864 Lieutenant General Kirby Smith, commanding the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Department, was still receiving secret communications from Drucilla, written from St. Louis, concerning military affairs in Missouri, Indiana and Illinois.
Contributor: Dale Snyder (48757956) •
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Drucilla was imprisoned at Gratiot Street Prison in St. Louis. She was released on April 15, 1862. See was accused of harboring secessionists on her farm in St. Louis, County. She said she was not aware of this since her farm contains 300 acres of property, 200 of which are not cleared. On September 3, 1862 Provost Marshal General Bernard G. Farrar ordered Drucilla to swear an oath of parole and pay a bond of $2,000.00. When she learned of this she fled the county for southwest Missouri, presumably to Confederate lines. On September 13, 1862, authorities found her in Iron County Missouri. She was returned to St. Louis and once again placed in Gratiot Street Prison. While in prison she helped the notorious Confederate mail carrier Absalom Grimes escape. Having taken her oath and posted bond, she left prison on October 14th. Drucilla along with 10 other women and 13 men, all St. Louisans, were found guilty of aiding Confederates and were put aboard the steamer Belle Memphis to be banished to Confederate-held territory south of Memphis. In Memphis the prisoners were transferred to wagons and traveled 50 miles east to LaGrange, Tennessee. They were then sent to Holly Springs, Mississippi and left there by Union cavalry to be on their own. Drucilla somehow returned to Missouri. As late as March 1864 Lieutenant General Kirby Smith, commanding the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Department, was still receiving secret communications from Drucilla, written from St. Louis, concerning military affairs in Missouri, Indiana and Illinois.
Contributor: Dale Snyder (48757956) •
born St. Louis Co. MO, wife of W.D. Sappington
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Drucilla was imprisoned at Gratiot Street Prison in St. Louis. She was released on April 15, 1862. See was accused of harboring secessionists on her farm in St. Louis, County. She said she was not aware of this since her farm contains 300 acres of property, 200 of which are not cleared. On September 3, 1862 Provost Marshal General Bernard G. Farrar ordered Drucilla to swear an oath of parole and pay a bond of $2,000.00. When she learned of this she fled the county for southwest Missouri, presumably to Confederate lines. On September 13, 1862, authorities found her in Iron County Missouri. She was returned to St. Louis and once again placed in Gratiot Street Prison. While in prison she helped the notorious Confederate mail carrier Absalom Grimes escape. Having taken her oath and posted bond, she left prison on October 14th. Drucilla along with 10 other women and 13 men, all St. Louisans, were found guilty of aiding Confederates and were put aboard the steamer Belle Memphis to be banished to Confederate-held territory south of Memphis. In Memphis the prisoners were transferred to wagons and traveled 50 miles east to LaGrange, Tennessee. They were then sent to Holly Springs, Mississippi and left there by Union cavalry to be on their own. Drucilla somehow returned to Missouri. As late as March 1864 Lieutenant General Kirby Smith, commanding the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Department, was still receiving secret communications from Drucilla, written from St. Louis, concerning military affairs in Missouri, Indiana and Illinois.
Contributor: Dale Snyder (48757956) •
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Drucilla was imprisoned at Gratiot Street Prison in St. Louis. She was released on April 15, 1862. See was accused of harboring secessionists on her farm in St. Louis, County. She said she was not aware of this since her farm contains 300 acres of property, 200 of which are not cleared. On September 3, 1862 Provost Marshal General Bernard G. Farrar ordered Drucilla to swear an oath of parole and pay a bond of $2,000.00. When she learned of this she fled the county for southwest Missouri, presumably to Confederate lines. On September 13, 1862, authorities found her in Iron County Missouri. She was returned to St. Louis and once again placed in Gratiot Street Prison. While in prison she helped the notorious Confederate mail carrier Absalom Grimes escape. Having taken her oath and posted bond, she left prison on October 14th. Drucilla along with 10 other women and 13 men, all St. Louisans, were found guilty of aiding Confederates and were put aboard the steamer Belle Memphis to be banished to Confederate-held territory south of Memphis. In Memphis the prisoners were transferred to wagons and traveled 50 miles east to LaGrange, Tennessee. They were then sent to Holly Springs, Mississippi and left there by Union cavalry to be on their own. Drucilla somehow returned to Missouri. As late as March 1864 Lieutenant General Kirby Smith, commanding the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Department, was still receiving secret communications from Drucilla, written from St. Louis, concerning military affairs in Missouri, Indiana and Illinois.
Contributor: Dale Snyder (48757956) •
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