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The Daily Dispatch: August 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], The battle near Springfield Mo. (search)
a conspicuous place in the history of their country. Before concluding this report, I must bear testimony to the gallant and meritorious conduct of Captain A L. Mason, of Company C, who fell in a charge at the head of his company. William H. Merritt Lieutenant Colonel Commanding. Northeast Missouri. The St. Louis Republican of the 18th says: The steamboat Jeanie Deans, which arrived on Saturday morning, brought a report from Canton, on the authority of a letter to Col. Bissel, that Gen. Harris had united with Martin Green, making their joint forces from three to five thousand. Col. Moore of the Union troops, was at Memphis, Scotland county, with but fifteen hundred men, and unless soon reinforced, it was feared that his whole command would be captured. We learn from the Bloomfield Clarion that about four hundred troops marched down from Davis and neighboring counties in Iowa, on Tuesday, to go to the assistance of Colonel Moore, and similar movements have bee