Sayers was active in the Missouri State Militia and served under Confederate General Polk as a civil engineer during the Civil War. He laid out Camp Jackson in St. Louis before the war in 1861.
Shortly before the war, he challenged General Daniel Marsh Frost to a duel, an account of which follows:
"The last duel on Bloody Island was just before the outbreak of the Civil war It was bloodless The principals were General DM Frost and Edward B Sayers both well known in St Louis and both afterwards in Confederate army Sayers was a civil engineer He laid out Camp Jackson in the spring of 1861 He was active in the state militia Frost was brigadier general commanding the militia of the St Louis district After the return of what was known as the Southwest Expedition a movement of Missouri troops to Southwestern Missouri to meet expected troubles on the Kansas border Sayers indulged in some criticism of General Frost The latter went to Sayers office which was on Chestnut street near Second and applied a horsewhip Sayers challenged and Frost accepted At the meeting on Bloody Island Sayers missed and Frost fired in the air. "
From "Missouri the center state: 1821-1915" by Walter Barlow Stevens, page 96
(per David Brown)
Shortly before the war, he challenged General Daniel Marsh Frost to a duel, an account of which follows:
"The last duel on Bloody Island was just before the outbreak of the Civil war It was bloodless The principals were General DM Frost and Edward B Sayers both well known in St Louis and both afterwards in Confederate army Sayers was a civil engineer He laid out Camp Jackson in the spring of 1861 He was active in the state militia Frost was brigadier general commanding the militia of the St Louis district After the return of what was known as the Southwest Expedition a movement of Missouri troops to Southwestern Missouri to meet expected troubles on the Kansas border Sayers indulged in some criticism of General Frost The latter went to Sayers office which was on Chestnut street near Second and applied a horsewhip Sayers challenged and Frost accepted At the meeting on Bloody Island Sayers missed and Frost fired in the air. "
From "Missouri the center state: 1821-1915" by Walter Barlow Stevens, page 96
(per David Brown)
Sayers was active in the Missouri State Militia and served under Confederate General Polk as a civil engineer during the Civil War. He laid out Camp Jackson in St. Louis before the war in 1861.
Shortly before the war, he challenged General Daniel Marsh Frost to a duel, an account of which follows:
"The last duel on Bloody Island was just before the outbreak of the Civil war It was bloodless The principals were General DM Frost and Edward B Sayers both well known in St Louis and both afterwards in Confederate army Sayers was a civil engineer He laid out Camp Jackson in the spring of 1861 He was active in the state militia Frost was brigadier general commanding the militia of the St Louis district After the return of what was known as the Southwest Expedition a movement of Missouri troops to Southwestern Missouri to meet expected troubles on the Kansas border Sayers indulged in some criticism of General Frost The latter went to Sayers office which was on Chestnut street near Second and applied a horsewhip Sayers challenged and Frost accepted At the meeting on Bloody Island Sayers missed and Frost fired in the air. "
From "Missouri the center state: 1821-1915" by Walter Barlow Stevens, page 96
(per David Brown)
Shortly before the war, he challenged General Daniel Marsh Frost to a duel, an account of which follows:
"The last duel on Bloody Island was just before the outbreak of the Civil war It was bloodless The principals were General DM Frost and Edward B Sayers both well known in St Louis and both afterwards in Confederate army Sayers was a civil engineer He laid out Camp Jackson in the spring of 1861 He was active in the state militia Frost was brigadier general commanding the militia of the St Louis district After the return of what was known as the Southwest Expedition a movement of Missouri troops to Southwestern Missouri to meet expected troubles on the Kansas border Sayers indulged in some criticism of General Frost The latter went to Sayers office which was on Chestnut street near Second and applied a horsewhip Sayers challenged and Frost accepted At the meeting on Bloody Island Sayers missed and Frost fired in the air. "
From "Missouri the center state: 1821-1915" by Walter Barlow Stevens, page 96
(per David Brown)
Gravesite Details
buried September 4, 1881
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