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September 11th (search for this): entry lexington
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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
17th (search for this): entry lexington
August (search for this): entry lexington
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