The House and Senate of Claib Jackson's Legislature assembled at Cassville, October 31, 1861, and continued in session there until November 7, when the General Assembly adjourned to meet at New Madrid the first Monday in March, 1862.  At Cassville there were eleven senators and forty-four representatives present.  There was a large amount of legislation performed during the session, among which were the signing of the acts of secession from the United States and annexation to the Confederate States, and the confirmation of Maj.-Gen. Price, of the Missouri State Guards, and of Brig.-Gens. N. W. Watkins, Thomas A. Harris, John B. Clark, W. Y. Slack (killed at Pea Ridge), A. E. Steen, M. M. Parsons, J. H. McBride and James S. Rains.

SOURCE:  Goodspeed's 1888 History of Barry County (reprint), p. 79.

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