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Doc. 21. battles of Pilot Knob and Leesburg, Missouri. General Ewing's official report. headquarters St. Louis District, St. Louis, Missouri, October 20, 1864. Colonel J. V. Du Bois, Chief of Staff, Headquarters Department of the Missouri: sir: I have the honor to report that on the night of the twenty-fourth Septembeo because of his long and useful service in the district, unblemished by a fault. I have the honor to be, Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, Thomas Ewing, Jr., Brigadier-General. A National account. St. Louis, October 6. Your correspondent is enabled to lay before the readers of the Gazette a full and s Department of the Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri, October 6, 1864. With pride and pleasure the Commanding General notices the gallant conduct of Brigadier-General Thomas Ewing, Jr., and his command in the defence of Pilot Knob, and in the subsequent retreat to Rolla. With scarcely one thousand effective men they repulsed the a
Doc. 25. the New Madrid expedition. Colonel Burrus' report. New Madrid, Mo., August 7. To Brigadier-General Ewing: Have been out seventeen days with a battalion of the Second Cavalry, Missouri State Militia, under Lieutenant-Colonel Heller, detachments of the Second and Third, under Major Wilson, and of the First and Sixth Missouri Cavalry Volunteers, under Captain Prewitt. I had skirmishes with guerillas and bushwhackers, in Mississippi, Stoddard, New Madrid, Pemiscot and Duncan counties, Arkansas, killing considerable numbers of them. We had quite a brisk running fight at Osceola, Arkansas, on the second instant, with Bowen's and McVaigh's companies, of Shelby's command. We captured their camp, killing seven, and took twenty-five prisoners, including Captain Bowen, their commander. On the fourth, at Elksehula, we fought the Second Missouri rebel cavalry, and Conyer's Guthrie's and Darnell's bands of guerrillas, all under the command of Colonel Cowan. We rout
ng toward Farmington, with five thousand men and four pieces of artillery. General Ewing was ordered to concentrate the troops in the southern part of his district ents, were called out, and the citizens also requested to organize and arm. General Ewing was sent to Pilot Knob, with directions to use his utmost exertions to findeight killed and fifty-six wounded, as appears from his report herewith. While Ewing's fight was going on, Shelby advanced on Potosi, and thence to Big River bridge twenty-seventh of October ultimo. On the twenty-eighth, when information of Ewing's fight and Price's presence at Pilot Knob came to hand, General Smith, discoveble obstacles to the passage of a hostile force with wagons and artillery. General Ewing, finding Marmaduke's and Fagan's rebel divisions before him, and his positico-operation in all measures precautionary and preparatory for the raid. General Ewing deserves special mention for military judgment, courage and gallantry in ho