Dennis Boman in Lincoln and Citizens' Rights in Civil War Missouri recounts an interesting incident relating to Sample Orr. During the fall 1862 elections, Orr was arrested by Radical district commander Brig. Gen. Ben Loan. Though a loyal Unionist, Orr was giving speeches critical of emancipation, military assessments (levied against southern sympathizers), confiscation of property, and arbitrary arrests (Loan alone had arrested hundreds of individuals). Gov. Gamble interceded to get Orr released but he was tried and acquitted by a military commission in June 1863.

Tom Jones