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The Daily Dispatch: October 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
brigade, Colonel James A. Mulligan, who were then in a partially entrenched camp at Jefferson City, were ordered to proceed to Lexington, Lafayette county, one hundred miles up the river, to reinforce the troops already at that place, under Colonel Peabody, consisting of several hundred Home Guards, a few Kansas troops, and a portion of the Missouri Eighth Regiment, Colonel White, with seven hundred of the First Regiment Illinois Cavalry, Colonel T. M. Marshall. These latter had preceded Color to that of Gen. Fremont. When this worthy body prudently retired before the Federal troops they did so in such haste that eight hundred thousand dollars in gold coin, and the State seals left in the vault of the bank, fell into the hands of Col. Peabody. The college building, within the fortification, became Col. Mulligan's headquarters. The magazine and treasure were stored in the cellar and suitably protected. The hospital of our troops was located just outside the entrenchments, in