Campbell entered the Confederate Army under General Sterling Price, and served through the war as a cavalryman under Generals Morgan, Forrest, and Wheeler.
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When tension over secession increased, Campbell enlisted in the 2nd Regiment Missouri Volunteer Militia under Col. John S. Bowen.
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Soon after leaving university he came to St. Louis to begin practicing law and was for a short time in the office of Charles D. Drake, later a U.S. Senator from Missouri, and he was admitted to the bar in 1856.
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In April 1861 Governor Claiborne Fox Jackson announced a state-wide militia muster for early May to gather for their yearly drill and training at a place just outside the city limits of Saint Louis located at Lindell's Grove ostensibly known as Camp Jackson.
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Following Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Campbell was hand selected by President Jefferson Davis to lead Davis' escape and to choose a few members of Duke's Cavalry brigade to protect his person.
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He found it impossible to practice law in Missouri because of the new "test oath" in the 1865 Drake constitution.
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