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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 193 (search)
Doc. 190.-the Baxter Springs massacre. General Blunt's letter. Baxter Spring<*>, Sixty-three miles below Fort Scott, October 7, 1863, 10 o'clock P. M. Captains Tholen and Loring: . . . . . . Every thing in the staff wagons is lost; the wagons were burned with most of their contents. . . . . . We have just found the body of Major Curtis. （Major Curtis's body, as also that of Judge-Advocate Lieutenant Farr, arrived in Leavenworth on the eleventh instant.) When I wrote to Major Blair last night it was supposed he was a prisoner, as we had searched the ground over near where his horse fell, and could not find him. Moreover, Quantrel's Adjutant, or a person representing himself as such, who came into Lieutenant Pond's camp with a flag of truce, said they had my Assistant Adjutant-General a prisoner. Today he was found near where he was thrown from his horse, shot through the head, evidently murdered after being taken prisoner. I shall start his body, with that of Lie
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 217 (search)
of the enemy killed, as far as I can learn, are eleven, and I know we wounded more than twice that number, which they carried off the field. There are several other interesting items, which I will furnish you in a future report. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, James B. Pond, First Lieut. Co. c, Third Wis. Cav., Commanding Post, Fort Blair. To Lieutenant-Colonel C. W. Blair,. Commanding Post, Fort Scott. Major Henning's report. Baxter's Springs, Cherokee nation, Oct. 7, 1863. Colonel: I have the honor to report the following facts in regard to the fight at Baxter's Springs, Cherokee Nation, October 6, 1863. On Sunday, the fourth, General Blunt, with the following members of his staff, namely, Major H. Z. Curtis, Assistant Adjutant-General, Major B. S. Henning, Provost-Marshal of District, Lieutenant Tappin, Second colored volunteers A. D. C., Lieutenant A. W. Farr, Judge-Advocate, together with the brigade band and all clerks in the different department