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What was prison life like in St. Louis during the Civil War?
Over the course of the war, the Union Army turned to two different prisons in downtown St. Louis to control rebellious citizens and send a message to the entire city.
Painting of Gratiot Street Prison by Martin Stadler, c. 1864-65
When the Union Army seized control of St. Louis in 1861, it had a problem. While a large portion of the immigrant population was anti-slavery, much of the native residents, whose wealth and economic ties relied on the âPeculiar Institution,â were openly hostile to their new occupying military government. As Iâve written about before, it even broke out into deadly riots on several occasions throughout the duration of the Civil War. But the Union Army, under the command of different leaders over the course of the war, turned to two different prisons in downtown St. Louis to not only control rebellious citizens, but also to send a message to the rest of the city.
This man was perhaps the most important person to work for the Lemp family
Henry Vahlkamp was an unsung brewing hero with one interesting biography.
Henry Vahlkamp
New research on the Lemp family has increasingly shown that they relied on dozens of unknown but critical men and women whose work spelled success for the famous brewery. Whether it was the early partners of Adam Lemp such as John William Kaeckell or Louis Bach, or John Baitinger, the brewmaster of William Lemp Sr., we cannot truly understand the story of the familyâs rise without looking at the lives of their employees. Perhaps the most important man to work for the Lemp Brewery for a half-century was Henry Vahlkamp.