813 Series I Volume XLI-IV Serial 86 - Price's Missouri Expedition Part IV
| Page 813 | Chapter LIII. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION. |
NEW MADRID, December 9, 1864.
General PLEASONTON:
Bolin's gang of about 300 men intend to attack Bloomfield this week.
H. SLADEK,
Lieutenant and Assistant Provost-Marshal.
SAINT LOUIS, December 9, 1864.
Captain J. H. STEGER:
Move the Forty-fifth [Missouri] to Saint Louis in a hurry. Lose no time. You will order two squadrons of the Missouri State Militia to Jefferson City immediately, to cover that post, abandoned by the Forty-fifth, ordered to Saint Louis. If Major Dale has crossed from Fulton leave him at Jefferson City, to muster in any recruits of Forty-fifth. I expect to be up Sunday or Monday.
JNO. F. PHILIPS,
Colonel, Commanding.
SAINT LOUIS, December 9, 1864-3.45 p. m.
Lieutenant-Colonel WEAR,
Forty-fifth Missouri Infantry, Jefferson City, Mo.:
You will immediately concentrate your regiment at Jefferson City, and move it with all possible dispatch to Saint Louis, reporting to department headquarters. All officers and enlisted men of your regiment on detached service not detailed by order from department headquarters will accompany you. If you have any men not mustered in, telegraph Lieutenant Campion to come down and muster them in. Begin the movement of the command at once. Lose no time.
JNO. F. PHILIPS,
Colonel, Commanding District.
WARRENSBURG, December 9, 1864.
Lieutenant Colonel D. W. WEAR,
Commanding Forty-fifth Infantry Missouri Volunteers:
You will move immediately, with your entire regiment, camp and garrison equipage, without trains, by rail to Benton Barracks, Saint Louis. Captain J. A. Green, assistant quartermaster, will furnish the necessary transportation. I have ordered Captains Anderson and Newman to move by train to-morrow to Jefferson City, Mo. Move at once. Inform me by telegraph when you start. Acknowledge receipt.
By order:
J. H. STEGER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
WARRENSBURG, December 9, 1864.
Captain C. J. MISSEMER,
Commanding Fourth Cavalry Missouri State Militia, Sedalia:
Order one squadron of your regiment to La Mine bridge and two squadrons to Jefferson City, Mo., to move at daylight to-morrow, 10th instant. Acknowledge receipt.
By order:
J. H. STEGER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
| Page 813 | Chapter LIII. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION. |
- 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