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The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], Latest Southern news. (search)
, on the border of Johnson co., between Missouri refugees, aided by some Kansas, and a body of Confederates.--Three of the latter are reported to have been killed. Parties from Lexington reported that at St. Joseph the Union men were giving up in despair, and daily going over to the Confederates, to save their lives and property. Provisions and clothing were constantly going to Price's army through that place, and passing within twenty miles of the Federal troops at Sedalla. General Prentiss took the people of St. Joseph, Mo., by surprise, the other day, by announcing his determination to swear them to the Union, and put such as would not take the oath to labor on the fortifications. He was good as his word, and administered the obligation to 800 persons, in the following words: United States of America, State of Missouri. I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States of America and the Constitution of the State of Missouri; that I w