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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 121 (search)
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 165 (search)
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162.-surprise of Quantrell.
Pleasant Hill, September 15, 1863--9 P. M. Brigadier-General Ewing, Commanding the District of the Border:
Sir: After a week spent in bushwhacking in search of Quantrell's guerrillas, I became convinced thQuantrell's guerrillas, I became convinced that some of his bands continued to secrete themselves upon the waters of the Sinabar and Blue Creeks, in Jackson county, Missouri. This morning I made another night march with a view to surprise him if possible.
I crossed the intervening prairie, an as, who commanded on the extreme left, in the course of the day fell upon a trail, by following which he soon came upon Quantrell's own camp.
He promptly attacked it, killed two of the guerrillas, captured some forty horses, destroyed all their sub d in seconding the labors of their chief.
The effect of this surprise and capture is most damaging to the designs of Quantrell in making another raid upon Kansas.
The loss of horses and clothing is to him worse than the loss of men, as the count
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 183 (search)
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 217 (search)