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The Daily Dispatch: September 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Notes of the war. (search)
iment of men whom he supposed, from their uniform, to be Siegel's regiment, advancing towards him at right angles. Their Colonel asked the Captain where the enemy were? He replied by pointing in the direction of the retreating rebel forces, and immediately commenced aligning his company upon the right of the regiment. All at once Captain Clayton mistrusted that he was in a trap, and looking towards the Colonel, he recognized an old acquaintance, being no less than Colonel Clarkson, of Kansas-Border-Ruffian notoriety, ex- Postmaster of Leaven-worth city. The Captain then gave the command, "right oblique, march." When he had moved his company a distance of about thirty paces from the enemy's line, the Adjutant of the rebel regiment rode rapidly towards him, and commanded him to halt. He did so, and immediately brought his company to an "about face," fronting the enemy's line. The Adjutant asked, "What troops are these?" "I belong to the First Kansas Regiment," replied the Capt