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October 17th, 1861 AD (search for this): chapter 95
ghly commend the faithfulness of the officers and men detailed on this service, from Colonel Ellis' First Missouri Cavalry, and of the Irish dragoons, commanded by Captain Naughton. Very respectfully, Frank J. White, Major and A. D. C., Commanding First Squadron Prairie Scouts. The following private letter was published in the St. Louis Democrat. It gives in detail the recapture of Lexington and the rescue of Cols. White and Grover from the hands of the rebels: Lexington, October 17, 1861. dear sir : As I suppose you will be glad to hear some of the particulars concerning the rescue of Col. White, Col. Grover, and others of our gallant wounded at Lexington, I take a spare moment to send you a line by my Adjutant, who accompanies Col. White. A short time since Gen. Fremont placed in my hands a picked body of men, the finest in his cavalry command, and despatched me to scout over those parts of the country most infested by rebels. I arrived at Georgetown a short tim
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possession, we procured lead and powder, and, turning a carpenter's shop into a manufactory, made three thousand cartridges for our revolving rifles. On the 15th instant, Colonel Hovey, commanding at Georgetown, received a despatch from Lexington stating that a valuable baggage train had left the vicinity of Lexington, destinedeered for the service, and Colonel Eads, of Georgetown, tendered me seventy men from his regiment. Accompanied by Col. Eads, I started at nine P. M., on the 15th instant, my whole force being two hundred and twenty strong. By a severe forced march of nearly sixty miles, we reached Lexington early the following morning, drove id despatched me to scout over those parts of the country most infested by rebels. I arrived at Georgetown a short time since, and waited for supplies until the 15th inst. As I was on the point of leaving for the Osage, a messenger from Colonel White, lying wounded at Lexington, was met by Col. Hovey, Twenty-fourth Indiana, who co
October 24th, 1861 AD (search for this): chapter 95
Doc. 91. recapture of Lexington, Mo. Major White's official statement. Camp look-out, Quincy, Mo., Oct., 24, 1861. Major-General Fremont: on the 5th instant I received your orders to organize a scouting cavalry squadron for special service, and organized one by making the following detail :--Company L, First Missouri Cavalry, Captain Charles Fairbanks, sixty-five men; Company C, First Missouri Cavalry, Captain P. Kehoe, sixty-five men; the Irish dragoons, (Independent,) fifty-one men. We left Jefferson City on the 5th instant, and after a severe march reached Georgetown, our men in good condition, on the afternoon of the 8th. Our horses being all unshod and unfit for travel, we procured a few shoes and a quantity of old iron, called for blacksmiths from our ranks, took possession of two unoccupied blacksmith shops, and in five days shod our horses and mules, two hundred and thirty-two in number. Our scanty supply of ammunition having been destroyed by the rain, and h
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