...the enemy's skirmishers. Having no means of crossing, he was compelled to fall back and give up all hope of revictualling the besieged. At the same time, a steamer with a battalion of troops from Jefferson City stopped on the way, and landed that reinforcement out of reach of the besieged town. The forces of J. Davis, stretching along the line of the Sedalia Railway and around Warrensburg, could no longer...