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C. W. Blair (search for this): chapter 21
bell threatening General Blunt Paola mass-meeting plan of removal of rebel families considered. A detachment of the Third Wisconsin cavalry was ordered by Colonel Blair to Baxter Springs, on the morning of the 17th, for the purpose of occupying that place as a regular station. Several months ago, in looking over the route of Gibson, where a small force of cavalry can be stationed to better advantage. And had not all his cavalry that could be spared been; employed on escort duty, Colonel Blair would have ordered several companies there months ago. Some sort of fortifications have already been constructed, and one or two companies of colored infantry icers feel apprehensions for its safety, for if the enemy should capture or kill our pickets, and make a dash upon the place in the night, we are not sure that Colonel Blair has a sufficient number of troops at his disposal to successfully defend the town, or public property. He is vigilant, however, and may not permit the enemy t
Morgan (search for this): chapter 21
moreover, those whose loyalty to the Government consists in extravagant expressions, should also remember that a considerable portion of the soldiers of most of the Kansas regiments were citizens of Missouri up to the time of their enlistments. And if reports be true, and I have endeavored to get at the exact truth, the Missouri State troops have followed Quantrell more persistently, and killed more of his men, than have our Kansas troops that are stationed along the border. A man named Morgan was killed on the 28th, a few miles east of Dry Wood, Missouri. From such facts as I have been able to obtain, it appears that this man has been in the habit, for some time, of coming to this post and getting such information in regard to our operations, along the border and in the Indian country, as he could pick up, and of carrying it across the line to bushwhackers, and thus keeping them perfectly advised of our movements. If there are any persons who come here for the purpose of gettin
Cooper (search for this): chapter 21
troy everything in Missouri for a distance of forty miles from Kansas folly of the scheme Generals Cooper and Cabell threatening General Blunt Paola mass-meeting plan of removal of rebel familieshes, who arrived on the morning of the 30th, from Fort Gibson, report that the enemy, under Generals Cooper and Cabell, are no longer assuming such a threatening attitude as they were a few weeks agolle to Van Buren. It is thought that General Blunt will be ready to move forward and attack General Cooper in a few days. After beating General Cooper he intends to swing to the left, and attack ForGeneral Cooper he intends to swing to the left, and attack Fort Smith, and take it by storm if the enemy defends it. Our troops are getting full rations, and are well supplied with ammunition. The cholera and small-pox have almost disappeared, and the soldiers are in good spirits, and ready to open a vigorous fall campaign against the enemy. General Cooper has been beaten so often the last year, I doubt whether he can keep his troops together to make a har
H. S. Anderson (search for this): chapter 21
fall in a few days, as great breaches have already been made in some portions of the defences. Our siege-gun batteries keep pouring in such a steady stream of shot and shell, that the enemy do not get time to repair the openings. The fall of Charleston will be a great humiliation to the rebels, since it was at that place they seized the first Government property, and made the first attack upon the United States troops. They are not having such a jolly time as when they were besieging Major Anderson's little command, in April, 1861. They will, unquestionably, be in a bad way when the hot-bed in which their secession ideas have been nurtured since the days of Calhoun, shall have been captured by our forces. Information received here from several points along the border towards Kansas City, indicates that the guerrilla bands in the counties of Jackson, Cass and Johnson, are displaying unusual activity. It is just a year ago since they concentrated in Jackson County, and attacked
Lawrence (search for this): chapter 21
n packed. But as it is only about thirty-five miles from Lawrence to the State line, it was soon apparent that he would getmished with the rear of the enemy about twelve miles from Lawrence. He also dispatched couriers to various points where we ween Kansas City and Paola got word of the destruction of Lawrence, and the massacre of her citizens, and made an effort to he section that he passed over between the State line and Lawrence is rather thickly settled, and some of the citizens on hiis reported that Captain Coleman sent a messenger to warn Lawrence that Quantrell had passed into Kansas, and might be movinwas either intercepted by the enemy, or the enemy reached Lawrence before him. Our troops are still continuing the pursuantrell's men have so often threatened the destruction of Lawrence during the last eighteen months, and as the place is secoa place as distant from the scene of active operations as Lawrence. Now that Quantrell has committed his fiendish act an
Lamar (search for this): chapter 21
wrence massacre. If they can find any other unguarded point, or a small detachment of our troops, we may expect to hear from them again shortly. They will not likely have any opposition to their movements down the border unless they come in contact with the Missouri militia stationed at Neosho, or some detachment of our troops on a scout. In fact, if they keep near the State line, the country is open to the Arkansas River. The State militia have not made regular stations at Carthage and Lamar, for the reason that those towns have been destroyed, and the country around them desolated, leaving scarcely anything in that region to protect. This devastated territory the enemy can march over and occupy for weeks without our knowing it, if they are not aggressive; and then, at their leisure, can make raids into Kansas, or into the counties east of the border counties of Missouri. In the interior of Missouri such raids are impossible, or at any rate, quite rare, for the reason that no
John McNeil (search for this): chapter 21
the mail and despatches, who arrived on the morning of the 30th, from Fort Gibson, report that the enemy, under Generals Cooper and Cabell, are no longer assuming such a threatening attitude as they were a few weeks ago. They have fallen back from their old position on the south bank of the Arkansas River, near Fort Gibson, to the north fork of Canadian River, about fifty miles further south. General Cabell has gone to Fort Smith with his division, as we have a column of troops under General John McNeil, ready to march down the line via Fayetteville to Van Buren. It is thought that General Blunt will be ready to move forward and attack General Cooper in a few days. After beating General Cooper he intends to swing to the left, and attack Fort Smith, and take it by storm if the enemy defends it. Our troops are getting full rations, and are well supplied with ammunition. The cholera and small-pox have almost disappeared, and the soldiers are in good spirits, and ready to open a vigor
James G. Blunt (search for this): chapter 21
to blame General Ewing and Schofield Denounced some favor the wild notion of a Grand army of invasion, to destroy everything in Missouri for a distance of forty miles from Kansas folly of the scheme Generals Cooper and Cabell threatening General Blunt Paola mass-meeting plan of removal of rebel families considered. A detachment of the Third Wisconsin cavalry was ordered by Colonel Blair to Baxter Springs, on the morning of the 17th, for the purpose of occupying that place as a regularanadian River, about fifty miles further south. General Cabell has gone to Fort Smith with his division, as we have a column of troops under General John McNeil, ready to march down the line via Fayetteville to Van Buren. It is thought that General Blunt will be ready to move forward and attack General Cooper in a few days. After beating General Cooper he intends to swing to the left, and attack Fort Smith, and take it by storm if the enemy defends it. Our troops are getting full rations, an
Plumb (search for this): chapter 21
ched Lawrence before him. Our troops are still continuing the pursuit, but as the enemy have reached the heavily wooded country of Cass county, they will probably break up into small bands, and return to their isolated retreats, where it will be difficult to find them. Colonel Saysear, of the First Missouri State Militia cavalry, commenced a vigorous pursuit of Quantrell soon after he crossed into Missouri, and overtook him on Big Creek near Harrisonville, and killed six of his men. Majors Plumb and Thatcher, of the Eleventh Kansas cavalry, have also overtaken several detachments of the enemy, and killed a number of his men. As Quantrell's men have so often threatened the destruction of Lawrence during the last eighteen months, and as the place is second in size and importance in the State, and the home of Senator Lane, it is unaccountable why several companies of troops have not been stationed there. Having always been opposed to the border ruffians, it has since the war be
Quantrell (search for this): chapter 21
f the gathering of the guerrilla bands under Quantrell north of us, and everything has been unusualens killed, by about three hundred men under Quantrell, at day-break on the morning of the 21st inser citizens, and made an effort to intercept Quantrell on his return. A few miles north of Paola oleman sent a messenger to warn Lawrence that Quantrell had passed into Kansas, and might be moving tia cavalry, commenced a vigorous pursuit of Quantrell soon after he crossed into Missouri, and ovenemy, and killed a number of his men. As Quantrell's men have so often threatened the destructi active operations as Lawrence. Now that Quantrell has committed his fiendish act and escaped dke gold rings from the fingers of ladies, as Quantrell's men did. But there is a phase of the discuth. The men are believed to be a portion of Quantrell's command who participated in the Lawrence mout the Union families knowing it. Since Quantrell's raid on Lawrence, and the agitations of ir[5 more...]
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