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An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps., Chapter 16: (search)
n that State Colonel Fremont superseded in the command of the Federals General Van Dorn our Guerrilla horse Breach of parole by Northern troops McCulloch and McIntosh killed our forces retire the loss on either side. Elk River, McDonald Co., Mo., March 14th, 1862. Dear Tom: Your last was received and perused with much pleasure, and here am I on the confines of Missouri, within a few hours' travel of Arkansas and. the Cherokee Indian territory, endeavoring to pen a few lines to ss approval of representatives from every county in the State. As the combined forces of the enemy were still approaching in great numbers, and evidently bent on mischief, Price and McCulloch fell back to a strong position at Pineville, (McDonald county,) and awaited Fremont's approach. The main body of the Federals were at Springfield, but had an advance division much nearer the Confederate leaders Our boys were particularly anxious for Fremont's advance, for as his main body was composed
Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863., Chapter 6: (search)
sickness and heavy mortality among the Indian refugees at Neosho sick and wounded being removed from Fayetteville to Fort Scott the classes of the enemy the Federals have to deal with bushwhackers guerrillas detachments returning to and leaving the State- the regular forces in our front illustrations-incidents from the expedition to low Jack the battle of Coon Creek Concluding remarks on the Indians. The 12th of February I joined the Indian division at Scott's Mills, McDonald County, Missouri, on the Cowskin river, twenty-two miles south west of Neosho, and about the same distance north of our old camp at Maysville. The bottom lands along the stream are excellent, and there are numerous fine farms, on most of which fine crops were raised last year. The movement of the division to this place is not regarded as retrograde or falling back, bat, simply for the purpose of more easily supplying our animals with forage and provisioning the refugee families with us. The mill
Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863., Chapter 7: (search)
idereal worlds and meteoric displays the Indian Delegation go to Washington. The Indian division struck tents at Scott's Mills and marched leisurely up the Cowskin river about twenty miles, and encamped near Pineville, the county seat of McDonald county, on the 21st of February. We were several days marching this distance, because, as I suppose, Colonel Phillips wishes to move at his leisure to those localities where our animals can be most easily foraged until spring shall have advanced fe on the 27th of February. We shall probably stay here several weeks. Bentonville is a small town, and perhaps never contained a population of more than three or four hundred. For agricultural purposes this county is even poorer than McDonald county, Missouri. Considerable tobacco, however, was raised on the small cultivated tracts before the war. The hills around here are not quite so rugged as along Elk river and Sugar Creek some twenty miles northeast of us. Yesterday morning, March
Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863., Chapter 24: (search)
the southern line of the State. Colonel Blair received information on the night of the 30th, that a force of the enemy, about fifteen hundred strong, under Colonel Coffey, was encamped on Cowskin prairie, in the southwest corner of McDonald County, Missouri, a few days ago. It is not thought, however, that they will be able to march up the border counties of Missouri, as the militia are in considerable force in the counties east and northeast of McDonald County, and have probably moved agaMcDonald County, and have probably moved against them already. The party of rebels that were in the vicinity of Humboldt recently, it is now supposed belonged to Coffey's command. After passing Dry Wood, twelve miles south of this post, we have no other troops stationed in Southern Kansas, and the pressure from Missouri having pushed the enemy into the Cherokee Nation, several small detachments were able to march up the Neosho River, fifty to sixty miles, without resistance. The main body of Quantrell's men is reported to be with Cof
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 119 (search)
elfley's battery, was ordered to proceed on the first day to Lindsey's prairie, where he arrived in the evening, sixteen miles south-west of McKisick's farm, on the second, (the fifth,) to Maysville, and to return on the third day to our own camp. Such was our position on the evening of the fifth, when I received orders from you to send a detachment of cavalry to Pineville, where there were said to be some two or three hundred rebels, who disturbed and endangered the Union people of McDonald County. I directed Major Mezaros, with eighty men, to march at ten o'clock P. M., on the north-western road to Pineville, whilst Capt. V. Rilmansegge was sent to Major Conrad, at Maysville, to lead his sixty men of cavalry, with one piece of artillery and twenty infantry, at ten o'clock in the night, from Maysville to Rutledge and Pineville, and to act in concert with Major Mezaros. A home guard company, stationed between Pineville and Keitsville, was ordered to occupy at night the roads lea
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles, Missouri, 1864 (search)
in Southwest MoMISSOURI--8th State Militia Cavalry. Aug. 2-8: Operations near HoldenMISSOURI--7th State Militia Cavalry. Aug. 3: Skirmish near FayetteMISSOURI--9th State Militia Cavalry. Aug. 4: Skirmish, RutledgeMISSOURI--8th State Militia Cavalry (Detachment). Union loss, 3 killed, 1 wounded. Total, 4. Aug. 4: Skirmish, Elk ChuteMISSOURI--6th and 12th Cavalry (Detachments); 2d and 3d State Militia Cavalry (Detachments). Union loss, 1 killed, 2 wounded. Total, 3. Aug. 5: Skirmish, McDonald CountyMISSOURI--8th State Militia Cavalry. Aug. 5-7: Skirmishes, CowskinMISSOURI--8th State Militia Cavalry. Union loss, 6 killed. Aug. 6-9: Scout in Saline CountyMISSOURI--1st State Militia Cavalry. Aug. 7: Skirmishes near Enterprise and Buffalo CreekMISSOURI--8th State Militia Cavalry. Aug. 7: Skirmish, Arrow RockMISSOURI--1st State Militia Cavalry (Detachment). Aug. 7: Skirmish, HuntsvilleMISSOURI--9th State Militia Cavalry (Detachment); 46th Enrolled Militia (Detachment). Aug. 7-8: S
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Missouri Volunteers. (search)
North Alabama and skirmishes March 17-April 1 (Co. G ). Scout from Springfield toward Fayetteville, Ark., April 28-May 7 (Cos. A, B, C and K ). Bee Creek May 2 (Co. I ). Spavinaw, Ark., May 13. Mill and Honey Creeks May 30-31. Diamond Grove and Neosho June 3. Scout from Forsyth through Ozark and Douglass Counties June 5-12 (Co. I ). Diamond Grove Prairie August 1 (Detachment). Operations in Southwest Missouri August 1-28. Rutledge August 4 (Detachment). McDonald County August 5. Cowskin August 5-6. Near Enterprise and Buffalo Creek August 7. Diamond Grove August 21. Fayetteville, Ark., August 28. Carthage September 22 (Detachment). Moreau Botttom, Jefferson City, October 7. Little Blue October 21. Independence October 22. Big Blue, State Line, October 22. Westport October 23. Engagement on the Marmiton or battle of Charlot October 25. Mine Creek, Little Osage River, Marias des Cygnes, October 25. Newtonia October
The Daily Dispatch: October 16, 1863., [Electronic resource], For hire (search)
rough his head. Lieut. Pond's camp was attacked about the same time. Four men were killed and three wounded. Gen. Blunt escaped, and meeting reinforcements below Fort Scott, took command of them and started in pursuit of Quantrell. Lieut. Fear, of the 3d Wisconsin, was killed. Capt. Todd, Quantrell's Adjutant, came to Pond's camps and asked for an exchange of prisoners. He said a number of rebels were wounded, among them Col. Shelby. Quantrell's force came from Cowskin Prairic, McDonald county, Mo. A letter from Fort Scott, dated the 8th, says a rebel force burned Carthage, Mo., that morning. Gen. Schofield telegraphed to Leavenworth that from one thousand to eight thousand rebels, under Quantrell, Coffee, Gordon and Hunter, were marching on Fort Scott, and that he had ordered Colonel Weir to move all the force he could to Fort Scott. Colonel McKissock, Superintendent of the Pacific railroad, arrived at California from Sedalia this evening, and reports that the rebels