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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 54 (search)
y, I might mention Sergeant James F. Lakin of Company F, Third Iowa, who bore the colors and carried them into the fight with all the coolness of a veteran. The loss of the enemy cannot be certainly ascertained, but from accounts deemed reliable it is not less than one hundred and sixty, many of whom were killed. His total force was about four thousand four hundred. Your most obedient servant, John Scott, Lt.-Col. Third Iowa Volunteers, Com'dg. Secession official report. General D. R. Atchison's report. Lexington, Sept. 21, 1861. General Price: Sir:--In pursuance of your orders I left this place on the 15th instant, and proceeded forthwith to Liberty, Clay County, Missouri, where I met the State Guard on the march from the northwest--one regiment of infantry, under command of Colonel Saunders, and one regiment of cavalry, under command of Colonel Wilfley, of the Fifth district, and one regiment of infantry, under command of Colonel Jeff. Patton, and one battalion o
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 9: (search)
the north side of the Missouri River, advancing to reenforce the garrison at Lexington. At the same time, and from the same direction, Colonel Saunders, with about twenty-five hundred Missourians, was coming to the aid of General Price. General D. R. Atchison, who had long been a United States Senator from Missouri, and at the time of his resignation was President pro tem. of the Senate, was sent by General Price to meet the command of Colonel Saunders and hasten them forward. He joined them on the north bank of the river, and, after all but about five hundred had been ferried over, General Atchison still remaining with these, they were unexpectedly attacked by the force from Kansas. The ground was densely wooded, and partially covered with water. The Missourians, led and cheered by one they had so long and reservedly honored, met the assault with such determination, and fighting with the skill of woodsmen and hunters, that they put the enemy to rout, pursuing him for a distance o
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, VII. Kansas and John Brown (search)
lso in the fighting, should a chance be offered. They were drunken, gambling, quarrelsome boys, but otherwise affable enough, with the pleasant manners and soft accent of the South. Nothing could be more naive than their confidences. Don't you remember, said one, with a sort of tender regret, how when we went up the river we were all of us drunk all the time? So we would be now, replied his friend sadly, only we ain't got no money. They said that they had been inveigled into coming by Atchison and others, on the promise of support for a year and fifty dollars bonus, but that they had got neither, and had barely enough to take them to St. Louis. Let me once get home, said the same youth who made the above confession, and I'd stay at home, sure. It has cost me the price of one good nigger just for board and liquor, since I left home. Curiously enough, in reading a copy of Mrs. Stowe's Dred, just published, which I had bought in Lawrence, I opened soon after on the apt Scriptural
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, Index. (search)
ssiz, Alexander, 283. Albion, the, 189. Alcott, A. B., 117, 147, 158, 169, 173, 175, 181, 191. Alexander the Great, 126. Alford, Henry, 110. Alger, W. R., 105. Allston, Washington, 45. American Reforms, largely of secular origin, 116. Anderson, Mary, 287. Andrew, J. A., 106, 243, 246, 247, 248. Andrews and Stoddard, 21. Andrews, Jane, 129. Andromeda, 89. Aper, a Roman orator, 361. Aristophanes, 301. Arnold, Matthew, 272, 282, 283. Aspinwall, Augustus, 125. Atchison, D. R., 213. Athletic exercises, influence of, 59. Atlantic Circle of Authors, the, 168, 187. Atlantic Club, the, 172, 176. Austin, Mrs., Sarah, 359. Autobiography, Obstacles to, x. Autolycus, in Winter's tale, quoted, 64. Avis, John, 234. Bachi, Pietro, 17, 55. Bacon, Sir, Francis, 58. Baker, Lovell, 164. Baldwin, J. S., 248. Bancroft, Aaron, 15. Bancroft, George, 189. Bancroft, Mrs., George, 282, Banks, N. P., 237. Barnard, Henry, 9. Bartlett, Robert, 167, 190. B
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 15: the Personal Liberty Law.—1855. (search)
and who Lib. 25.107. was desirous to join them. They had written for arms and means of defence, and declared in their letters that fighting suasion was the most important institution in the new Territory. See John Brown's own account of the Convention in Sanborn's Life of him, pp. 193, 194. Among the donors was Capt. Charles Stuart—a clear case of British Gold. In November, another homicide led to the siege of Lib. 25.195, 198, 199, 203. Lawrence by the Border-Ruffian army under Atchison and Stringfellow, and the so-called Wakarusa war. Lib. 25.203; 26.2. Governor Shannon summoned out the militia (i. e., the Missourians), and made demand on the President for Lib. 25.199. Federal troops. It would be a grave error to look upon the Kansas struggle—any more than upon the civil war of which it was the prelude—as one between abolitionists and pro-slavery men. Mr. Garrison had been careful to say nothing to Lib. 25.86. discourage emigration to the Territory, but he had never<
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 16: Fremont.—1856. (search)
ng censure. To the former, Lib. 26.34, 42, 54, 58. who had said, You might just as well read the Bible to Lib. 26.42. buffaloes as to those fellows who follow Atchison and D. R. Atchison. B. F. Stringfellow. Stringfellow, he rejoined: Is it not to be sorely pressed, yea, to yield the whole ground, Lib. 26.42. to representD. R. Atchison. B. F. Stringfellow. Stringfellow, he rejoined: Is it not to be sorely pressed, yea, to yield the whole ground, Lib. 26.42. to represent any class of our fellow-creatures as being on the same level with wild beasts? To such a desperate shift does the slaveholder resort, to screen himself from condemnation. The negroes, he avers, are an inferior race—a connecting link between men and monkeys—and therefore it is folly to talk of giving them liberty and equal rightould be to know where to begin— whom first to despatch, as opportunity might offer. We should have to make clean work of the President and his Cabinet— Douglas, Atchison, Stringfellow, Toombs, Wise, and their associates—Doctors Lord, Adams, Spring, Fuller, and others of the same cloth—Judges Loring, Kane, Grier, and Slave Co
The Daily Dispatch: July 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Maryland Regiment in the battle at Stone Bridge. (search)
The Governor of Missouri. --Hon. Claiborne F. Jackson, Governor of Missouri; also, Gen. D. R. Atchison, Dr. S. P. Moore, W. S. Jackson, of the same State, and Col. Cocke, of Knoxville, Tennessee, arrived at the Spotswood yesterday.