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The Daily Dispatch: February 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], Quantrell's Exodus from Missouri--the Blount fight. (search)
Quantrell's Exodus from Missouri--the Blount fight. A correspondent of the Texas Telegraph, who is contributing to that paper "Sketches of Quantrell's Men," giQuantrell's Men," gives the following account of the Blount affair, the fullest we have yet seen from a Confederate source: Towards the middle of September the guerillas reunited liking the "lay out," and scenting the danger, fled towards the fort, which Col. Quantrell had not yet discovered. About sixty of Todd's men, under the leadership officently ferocious and superbly desperate. But for the inauspicious yell for Quantrell, every man might have entered the fort and carried it by storm. But a perfecTaylor found the whole command in line of battle, motionless as statues, with Quantrell at their head on his war-horse looking as grim as the Sphinx of Egypt at a brJust then the cavalcade moved, and the band commenced playing Yankee Doodle. Quantrell moved also; but the quick eye of Blount discovered something wrong and called