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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 836 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 690 0 Browse Search
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 I. 532 0 Browse Search
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army 480 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 406 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 350 0 Browse Search
Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863. 332 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 322 0 Browse Search
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 310 0 Browse Search
Col. John C. Moore, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.2, Missouri (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 294 0 Browse Search
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From Missouri. fight at Fredericktown — the loss on both sides — officers killed, &c. Memphis, Tenn., October 29. --A correspondent of the Appeal, of this city, in a letter dated at Greenville, Missouri, 22d instant, states that General Jeff. Thompson engaged the Federals at Fredericktown on the previous day (the 21st.) The enemy had a force of 5,000, and the Confederates were only 1,300 strong. After several hours of severe fighting General Thompson retreated with a loss of 42 killed and wounded. The loss of the enemy is said to have been about 400. The Federals had five rifled cannon, and General Thompson only two common guns. Several officers on both sides were killed. [second Dispatch.] Memphis, Oct. 29. --Some details of the battle at Fredericktown, Missouri, have transpire from Federal sources. The Confederate force were under the command of Generals Thompson and Lowe, and numbered about 5,000--The Confederate loss was heavy, and the F
re the Mayor, he had them locked up to await an examination at his leisure. This morning they were brought before him and questioned separately. One of them is J. W. and the other Thomas C. Scales, brothers, of Columbus, Ky., from which place, with their father, mother, and sister, they say they were driven by the Unionists, and took refuge in Hickman. The next thing they did was to scour the country for horses, and they say that sixty- seven horses were taken by them from the people, of Missouri, for which they gave receipts that they were to be used for the Confederate States, and turned them over to our forces under Gen. Pillow. Thomas then went to Cairo, as a spy, according to this relation, and on this trip discovered that the free negro Isaac was engaged in ferrying across runaway slaves. Thomas made a pretended arrangement with him to bring to that point for transportation a gang of twenty runaways. Having made their arrangements, the two Scales and a man named Clarkst
tealing — objects of the war plainly stated--Maj. Prince's opinion of Lane. &c., &c. From a late number of the St. Louis Democrat, the Lincoln organ in Missouri, which publishes it with evident approval, we copy the following report of a speech delivered at Leaven worth, Kansas, by the notorious and infamous Gen. Jim Laned of our gallant Johnson, where too of the Kansas brigade drove 600 traitors from their entrenchments; go to Osceola, one of the strongest natural points in Southern Missouri, where, after eighty miles march through the enemy's country, we met a greatly superior force, beat it, and took and destroyed more than a million dollars woe cup of freedom. In a department with its headquarters at St. Louis, Kansas is not as secure as she should be. So difficult is it to convey intelligence across Missouri that it is not safe for us to receive our orders from St. Louis. The true interests of Kansas demands that she should be in a separate department, with Fort Lea