Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Kirksville, Adair County” in chapter 2, page 35 of Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II.:
...re before Richmond combined with other influences to fill the interior of the State with formidable bands of Rebel partisans.
Of these, Col. Porter's, two or three thousand strong, was attacked at Kirksville, Adair County , by Col. John McNeil, with 1,000 cavalry and a battery of 6 guns, and, after a desperate fight of four hours, utterly defeated, with a loss of 180 killed and 500 wounded. Several wagon-loads of arms ...
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