Part of the service company and the band of the Missouri National Guard just before leaving the old Armory at Grand boulevard and Market street for the new quarters on Market street, near Spring avenue.
It is filled columns of the nation's newspapers for months. This sketch of the Arsenal, by artist of Harper's Weekly, has the Home Guards lounging about the spacious lawn of the reservation. These volunteer troops were called the "black guards" by Southern sympathetizers in St. Louis.