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The Daily Dispatch: may 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 18 (search)
This is something more than a skirmish, as there were four or five thousand of the enemy and some twenty-five hundred patriots engaged. The former were reinforced and this protracted the contest, but at last they fled. McBride took three or four hundred prisoners and a number of wagons, army stores, etc — The battle, our informant says, began last Sunday week. The stirring events east of us have fixed attention in that quarter so that the important scenes in Missouri are over looked. Kansas city was visited by patriots lately, and as the narrator graphically expresses it, was "cleaned out" A party of Stand Wattles men eighteen in number, made an attack upon four hundred Federals encamped at the lead mines. This was a night attack, and the Federals fled unusual. The assailants gathered the wagons, some machinery and other, property, set them on fire an alert before their small numbers could be ascertained Hardly a day passes in Missouri without a skirmish or battle, and the Fede