McClellan and many others who were directing military operations, in some way a Brigadier-General's commission came to U.S. Grant, and he was assigned to the District of Southeastern Missouri, with headquarters at Cape Girardeau, where his duty was to hold in check the poetical M. Jeff Thompson, the noisy Gideon J. Pillow and the Prelatic Leonidas J. Polk in their efforts to get control of the southeastern corner of the State and menace Cairo and St. Louis.
"The Struggle for Missouri"
John McElroy
The Scotch had claimed equality with the English church: to give the legal rights of a court to the bishop was to create local disparity; while the presbyterian had no religious objection to ecclesiastical courts, the other non-Prelatic communions abhorred them.
"The History of Tasmania, Volume I (of 2)"
John West
And, taking the definition of malignants given by the declarations of both kingdoms, joined in arms anno 1643, to be just, which says, "Such as would not take the Covenant were to be declared to be public enemies to religion and their country, and that they are to be censured and punished as professed adversaries and malignants," it cannot be refused but that the Prelatic party in England now joined with are such.
"Leading Articles on Various Subjects"
Hugh Miller