 With war seeming inevitable, Missouri hoped to stay out of the conflict by remaining a part of the Union but militarily neutral – not sending men or supplies to either side and pledging to fight troops from either side who entered the state.The policy was first put forth in 1860 by outgoing Governor Robert Marcellus Stewart, who had Northern leanings.It was reaffirmed by incoming Governor Claiborne Fox Jackson, who had Southern leanings.