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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 198 (search)
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185.-the battle of Lone Jack, Mo.
General Blunt's report.
Col. E. C. Catherwood, Commanding, Sedalia:
your despatch of this, the eighteenth, is just arrived.
I came upon the united forces of Coffee, Hunter, Tracy, Jackman and Cockerhills, numbering four thousand, at Lone Jack, at seven o'clock P. M. on the fifteenth instant.
On the morning of the sixteenth the rebel forces attacked Major Foster with six hundred State militia at Lone Jack, defeating him, and captured two pieces of artillery.
The loss on each side was about fifty killed and seventy-five to one hundred wou ommand made a gallant fight, and were only defeated by overwhelming force.
On my arrival at Lone Jack I found General Warren with a command of eight hundred, consisting of the First Missouri and F d) were sent out from Lexington, under command of Major Foster.
We arrived in the vicinity of Lone Jack at ten P. M. on the evening of the same day, where we learned that the enemy, two thousand fiv