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Browsing named entities in Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore). You can also browse the collection for C. R. Jennison or search for C. R. Jennison in all documents.
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 62 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 169 (search)
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160. Colonel Jennison's welcome to Captain John Brown's sharpshooters.
A writer in the Chicago Tribune gives the following account of the reception:
camp Jennison, Kansas City, Tuesday, November 12, 1861.
To-night I have looked on pany of sharpshooters arrived here this afternoon, having, on reaching Fort Leavenworth, unanimously decided to join Colonel Jennison's command.
They will be attached as mounted riflemen.
Some sixty men are here, under Lieuts. Bostwick and Hoyt. Ca lly.
The bugler of the company then sang a new and very appropriate version of Dixie, which I will send hereafter.
Colonel Jennison was called out, and made a characteristic speech.
I cannot give you more than a short synopsis thereof.
It was as forcible, and couched in as strong Anglo-Saxon, as the proclamation I forwarded you yesterday.
Colonel Jennison said:
Gentlemen and fellow-soldiers: I am not in the habit of public speaking, but will say that I never felt more like fighting than
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 206 (search)
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195. Col. Jennison's proclamations.
To the People of Jackson, Lafayette, Cass, Johnson, and Pettis Counties, Mo.:
I have come among you with my command, under the authority of the General Government, for the purpose of protecting the supply trains, and all other property of the United States Government, and for the purpose of throwing a shield of protection and defence around all men who are loyal to that Government.
No excesses will be committed by any soldier in my command. .
It is hoped that you will see the necessity of abiding by the laws and actively sustaining them.
But if you raise an arm against the Government we have sworn to protect, the course I have briefly marked out I will follow to the letter. C. R. Jennison, Col. Com. First Kansas Cavalry.
Kansas City, Mo., 26th. To all Persons in Arms against the Government in Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette, and Pettis Counties:
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All who are now in arms against the Government of the United States in the
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 235 (search)