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that he left the State. General Price called upon the Confederates to fill up his shattered ranks. They responded with alacrity, and at the middle of August he moved northward, in the direction of Lexington. It occupied an important position, and was garrisoned with less than 3,000 troops, under Col. James A. Mulligan. His troops had only forty rounds of cartridges each, six small brass cannon, and two howitzers. The latter were useless, because there were no shells. On the morning of Sept. 11 Price appeared at a point 3 miles from Lexington. Hourly expecting reinforcements, Mulligan resolved to defy the overwhelming force of the enemy with the means at his command. Price moved forward, drove in the National pickets, and opened a cannonade on Mulligan's hastily constructed works. Very soon some outworks were captured, after fierce struggles, but the defence was bravely maintained throughout the day. Price was anxious, for he knew that there was a large Union force near unde
Lexington (Mo.), siege of After the drawn battle at Wilson's Creek, in 1861, General McCulloch found his assumption of authority so offensive to the Missourians that he left the State. General Price called upon the Confederates to fill up his shattered ranks. They responded with alacrity, and at the middle of August he moved northward, in the direction of Lexington. It occupied an important position, and was garrisoned with less than 3,000 troops, under Col. James A. Mulligan. His troops had only forty rounds of cartridges each, six small brass cannon, and two howitzers. The latter were useless, because there were no shells. On the morning of Sept. 11 Price appeared at a point 3 miles from Lexington. Hourly expecting reinforcements, Mulligan resolved to defy the overwhelming force of the enemy with the means at his command. Price moved forward, drove in the National pickets, and opened a cannonade on Mulligan's hastily constructed works. Very soon some outworks were capt
orks were captured, after fierce struggles, but the defence was bravely maintained throughout the day. Price was anxious, for he knew that there was a large Union force near under Col. J. C. Davis, and Gen. John Pope was coming down from the country northward of the Missouri River. Mulligan was hopeful, for he expected some of these troops every moment. Day after day and night after night his men worked to strengthen the position, and Price's 20,000 men were kept at bay. Finally, on the 17th, the Confederates were reinforced, and their number was swelled to 25,000. Then Price cut off the communication of the garrison with the town, their chief source of water supply. The next day he took possession of the town, closed up the garrison, and began a vigorous siege. For seventy-two hours Mulligan and his little band sustained it, amid burning sun-heat by day and suffocating smoke at all times, until ammunition and provisions were exhausted, and on the morning of the 20th he was co
Lexington (Mo.), siege of After the drawn battle at Wilson's Creek, in 1861, General McCulloch found his assumption of authority so offensive to the Missourians that he left the State. General Price called upon the Confederates to fill up his shattered ranks. They responded with alacrity, and at the middle of August he moved northward, in the direction of Lexington. It occupied an important position, and was garrisoned with less than 3,000 troops, under Col. James A. Mulligan. His troops had only forty rounds of cartridges each, six small brass cannon, and two howitzers. The latter were useless, because there were no shells. On the morning of Sept. 11 Price appeared at a point 3 miles from Lexington. Hourly expecting reinforcements, Mulligan resolved to defy the overwhelming force of the enemy with the means at his command. Price moved forward, drove in the National pickets, and opened a cannonade on Mulligan's hastily constructed works. Very soon some outworks were capt
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