34 Series I Volume XLI-III Serial 85 - Price's Missouri Expedition Part III
| Page 34 | Chapter LIII. LOUISIANA AND THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI. |
MEXICO, MO., September 2, 1864.
Major FRANK S. BOND,
Aide-de-Camp:
Expedition has started and am expecting to hear from them to-night. Too late to co-operate with them.
J. B. DOUGLASS,
Brigadier-General.
SAINT JOSEPH, September 2, 1864.
Major A. A. KING,
Liberty, Mo.:
Move forthwith from Liberty to Glasgow with all the available force that can be spared from the garrison at Liberty. Make the number 250 men, well armed and mounted. If possible add to them at Richmond, Carrollton, and Brunswick all the well-armed and mounted militiamen that can be spared from home-guard duty at Glasgow, detailing a concentrated movement against the bushwhackers in Howard, Boone, and Randolph Counties. Prepare for a campaign of fifteen or twenty days; move with light rations to Glasgow. Restrain your command from all lawlessness. Prevent straggling and pillaging, if at the cost of shooting offenders. Obtain information of guerrilla movements at Carrollton, and if they are said to be in any force in Central Chariton send a column via Rockford, on Grand River, to Keytesville and Glasgow. Keep me advised by messengers sent to Hamilton, Chillicothe, or Brookfield, to be sent by telegraph. Compel citizens to bear your messages, and hold them responsible for promptness and secrecy. Keep your destination and campaign a secret. Captain Garth will be instructed to be vigilant and on the alert during your absence from Liberty. Answer at once when you will probably reach Glasgow.
CLINTON B. FISK,
Brigadier-General.
WESTON, September 2, 1864.
General FISK:
Gordon has gone north toward the Iowa line-the only whacker of any prominence now left to engage our attention except Captain William Downing.
H. HILLIARD,
Major, Commanding.
HDQRS. EIGHTH SUB-DISTRICT OF NORTH MISSOURI,
OFFICE OF ASSISTANT PROVOST-MARSHAL,Fulton, Mo., September 2, 1864.
Lieutenant A. J. HARDING,
Actg. Pro. March, Dist. of North Missouri, Saint Joseph, Mo.:
LIEUTENANT: I have the honor herewith to submit to you my monthly report.
During the past month the bushwhackers have been more troublesome in this sub-district than at any time before. The bands are numerous
| Page 34 | Chapter LIII. LOUISIANA AND THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI. |
- Confederate President Jefferson Davis calls for March 27 to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer.
- Following the Underground Railroad Route By Bicycle
- March is Women's History Month! Read the fascinating accounts of women spies hiding coded messages in women's hair, conductors of the Underground Railroad, soldiers disguised as men, surgeons, and advisors to the President!
- Teachers tackle race, economic disparity and history
- The President's Hymn: 'Give Thanks All Ye People'
- Thanksgiving Day during the Civil War
- Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation in a divided time: ‘one heart and one voice by the whole American People’
- What Abraham Lincoln found reading the Book of Job amid civil war
- Civil War stories on display at Lincoln Highway museum in Unity
- Who was Henry Benning, for whom Fort Benning in Columbus was named?
- Fort Gordon Army Base: Who was John Brown Gordon?
- From the Civil War to the football field, we have been celebrating the wrong values
- History and Healing: Removing Controversial Artifacts from the Civic Landscape
- How to Reframe the Civil War in the Classroom
- Man scores Abraham Lincoln autograph in box of trading cards
- Native Americans' role in the Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln Healed a Divided Nation. We Should Heed His Words Today.
- An escaped slave was the 'Florence Nightingale’ of Indiana's Civil War regiment
- A Southern Democrat survived impeachment trap and came to be in charge of Reconstruction
- New Statue Unveiled In Response To Richmond's Confederate Monuments