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L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, Moore and Blue, the Kansas scouts. (search)
im with a better horse than he then had, on which he at once started back. On arriving at camp, he related his adventure, whereupon a body of cavalry was sent out in pursuit, and the next day succeeded in capturing a number of the band. Late in the fall, Moore and Blue again met in Leavenworth, and both went toward Springfield as guides and spies for Lane and Sturgis's commands. On Christmas day, both were sent by General Steele into Price's camp, whither they went, and returned on January 3d, 1862. Four miles from Warsaw, they found Christmas was being celebrated by a ball, at which many rebel officers were present, In company with some rebel teamsters, they devised a plan to scare these officers off, and secure to themselves the field and the girls, by rushing up to the house and shouting, at the top of their voices, The Feds are coming! The Feds are coming! The plan worked admirably: the officers rushed away in hot haste-one even falling into the well-and our plotters were l