 Complete the following phrase:  The Monticello area, like much of Lewis County, was pro-Confederate during the American Civil War. Perhaps the towns most significant contribution to the Southern cause was one of its most notable citizens, Martin E. Green. He and his brother, U.S. Senator James S. Green had come to Lewis County from Virginia in the mid-1830s. While James became a lawyer and politician, Martin operated a successful sawmill near Monticello. He would also enter politics, becoming a judge of the Lewis County court. With the outbreak of the Civil War and a riot at Canton on July 4, 1861, Judge Green called on Lewis Countys pro-Confederate citizens to assemble under the banner of the Missouri State Guard at a training camp on the Fabius River at Horseshoe Bend not far from Monticello. A few weeks later Greens forces would be defeated by pro-Union Missouri Home Guards at the Battle of Athens in neighboring Clark county. Green and his band of northeast Missouri cavalrymen would go on to fight at 