ght than these blackened, hideous corpses I never saw or imagined.
Some seventy horses were also killed, and these two were as hideous and disgusting in many respects as the poor remains of humanity that lay about them — all poisoned the air with the stench of decomposition, and shocked terribly the sensibilities by their ghastly wounds, their agonized positions, and loathsome evidences of decay which characterized them all.
Leavenworth conservative account.
Samuel C. Gamble and William H. Cutter, of the Missouri Thirteenth, Col. Peabody, arrived at Leavenworth from Lexington.
The regiment, numbering six hundred and fifty men, left Kansas City on the 3d inst., in company with one hundred and fifty men under Col. Van Horn, and marched to Lexington.
On the 7th, they went to Warrensburg and took a lot of coin from the banks, and returned on the 11th.
The whole number of troops then in Lexington, was two thousand six hundred, and no reinforcements arrived up to the time of surre
ered boot, through which gazed audaciously his toes, indicating that the plunderings of many a different locality made up his whole.
Generally the soldiers were armed with shot-guns or squirrel rifles; some had the old flint-lock muskets, a few had Minie guns, and others Sharp's or Maynard rifles, while all, to the poorest, had horses.
The very elite of the Confederate forces were there--Generals Price, Rains, Slack, Parsons, Harris, Green, Hardee, were all there--Colonels Saunders, Payn, Beal, Turner, Craven, Clay, and in short, I believe the balance of the thirty-five thousand men, all either colonels or majors, as I was introduced to no one who was not either the one or the other.
The treatment extended by the Confederate officers to the prisoners was both humane and courteous — they protected them, when possible, from insult and plundering, and as much as possible extended to them the courtesies with which a chivalrous enemy always treats a conquered foe.
Of the losses on
