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Anderson & Co., and was in their possession, I determined to move early this morning with my entire force and give them battle; but on my arrival here I was happily disappointed in the result of the engagement of yesterday, and from what little information I have been able to gather up our troops acted bravely and well, losing 1 man killed and 2 wounded. There are five dead rebels on the ground besides others said to be carried off, and quite a large number wounded. I will remain here until I hear from you, unless I can learn of some movement of the rebels which it is important to meet at once. I would be happy to receive orders from you by return messenger. My command are anxious to meet the enemy and get revenge for the wanton massacre of the Third Missouri State Militia. Colonel Matthews should not be censured for the disaster, as he had taken, as he thought, all necessary precautions to insure its safe arrival, and on my arrival at Rocheport, and learning from Colonel Matthews that his baggage train would be in that day, I ordered him to send out thirty cavalry to meet them, and they had just met them when the fight took place. The rebels burned all the train except the commissary and ammunition wagons, which, strange to say, were not destroyed, and we now have them in our possession. We lost 12 men killed, the bodies of whom have been found, and 3 negroes (teamsters). All the soldiers were shot in the head, showing that they had been murdered after being captured. Captain Roberts and Captain McFaden are yet out, and fears are entertained that they have been killed. I would like to have the fifty men of First Iowa Cavalry to join me before leaving this part of the county.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
J. B. DOUGLASS,
Brigadier-General.

P. S.-I have the pocketbook of Colonel Perkins, found on the battleground of the disaster to Third Missouri State Militia, and I am inclined to think he was mortally wounded.

Brig. Gen. C. B. FISK, Glasgow, Mo.

J. B. D., Brigadier-General.

HDQRS. EIGHTH MIL. DIST., ENROLLED MISSOURI MIL.,

Columbia, Mo., December 12, 1864. GENERAL: In answer to yours of the 8th instant requesting a report from me of the number of casualties in the Enrolled Missouri Militia under my command during the raid of Price in Missouri, I have the honor to report that I have received no official report showing that any of my command were killed during said raid. I had some 4 or 5 wounded in different skirmishes during the time Captain Fowkes, Captain Company C, Seventieth Enrolled Missouri Militia, surrendered Paris on the 15th of October. At the time of the surrender, he reports 55 men of his command and 10 of the Ninth Missouri State Militia. Lieutenant Vance, with 69 belonging to the Forty-sixth Enrolled Missouri Militia, I have been informed, surrendered at Glasgow, but of this I have received no official report.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. B. DOUGLASS,

Brigadier-General.

Brig. Gen. C. B. FISK, Macon, Mo.

28 R R-VOL XLI, PT I

No. 47.

Report of Brig. Gen. James Craig, Missouri State Militia.

HDQRS. SEVENTH MILITARY DISTRICT OF MISSOURI,

Saint Joseph, December 14, 1864. LIEUTENANT: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 8th instant calling for a list of the killed, wounded, and captured by the Enrolled Missouri Militia in my district. I regret that the officers of the militia generally neglect to make written reports of their scouts. In the fight in which Bill Anderson was defeated and killed some 6 of his men were killed by the Daviess and Ray County militia, under Acting Lieutenant-Colonel Cox and Major Grimes. Major Pace, Eleventh Missouri Cavalry, at my request, took command of 100 Enrolled Missouri Militia, and had a fight in Clay County, in which he killed 7 bushwhackers; and in an affair at Skinner's Bridge, in Platte, his command killed 2 others, one of whom was a son of Kemp Woods. Hart, a brother of the notorious Joe, was wounded and captured by a scout sent out from Stewartsville. The military prison of this city is full of prisoners taken by the Enrolled Missouri Militia, who were captured under circumstances which forbid their being shot as guerrillas; they nearly all surrendered unarmed, and claim to have been conscripted by Thornton, Thrailkill, Welden, or some other leader, and that they each deserted at the first safe opportunity, and surrendered to the nearest military commander of Union forces. Maj. E. S. Castle, jr., had a fight with the bushwhackers at Smithville, Clay County; casualties not recollected, and no report on file.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

Lieut. W. T. CLARKE,

Aide-de-Camp, Macon, Mo.

JAS. CRAIG.

No. 48.

Report of Col. Chester Harding, jr., Forty-third Missouri Infantry.

BENTON BARRACKS, November 12, 1864.

SIR: I have the honor to report that on the 5th day of October, 1864, six companies (A, C, D, E, G, and H) of the Forty-third Infantry Mis souri Volunteers were embarked under my command upon the steamboat West Wind to proceed to Jefferson City by river, in pursuance of orders from headquarters of the District of North Missouri. Accompanying me as passengers on their way to headquarters were Lieut. Col. D. J. Hynes, chief of cavalry; Surg. F. G. Porter, medical director, and Capt. G. A. Holloway, assistant adjutant-general upon the staff of the general commanding the district, and Lieuts. J. A. Cotton and I. H. Eldridge, of the Seventeenth Illinois Cavalry. Second Lieut. George F. Simmonds, of the Sixty-second U. S. Colored Infantry, at his own request, was ordered to report to me for duty during his leave of absence, and up to the moment of his being killed in action rendered me efficient service in responsible positions. At Fort Leavenworth Maj. Gen. S. R. Curtis sent the steam-boat Benton with us, under the control of Maj. S. S. Curtis, of his staff, to remove Government stores from Lexington to a place of safety, and kindly allowed me to transfer half my command to her. Notwithstanding this assistance we met with frequent detentions by grounding on bars. The boats could not run after dark. Arriving at Camden at night-fall the boats were landed opposite the town. Guerrillas were reported to occupy Wellington, seven miles below, and to be annoying citizens of Lexington. To clear them away from the river-bank I took four companies ashore and marched through Wellington to Lexington, distance fifteen miles, reaching the city before daybreak, and there awaited the boats, which came in a few hours afterward. The Government stores spoken of were loaded upon the Benton by the post quartermaster, who placed his sergeant in charge of them. On the 11th of October, when near Brunswick, I learned that the town was occupied by guerrillas and rebel conscripts. We approached the place with caution, landed at the mouth of Grand River, and a portion of the troops were taken ashore. We found some forty or fifty of the enemy well posted in a strong log and earth work. Our skirmishers, under Lieutenant Simmonds, fired upon them, and they were said to have lost two men, who were carried off by their comrades, mortally wounded. They mounted their horses, left their fortifications without returning our fire, and fled to the woods. I feared that they would concentrate near the river-bank below us and attack our boats. I therefore remained over night, mounted about fifty men, and sent them to disperse any hostile bands which they might meet. Only one small squad was reported to have been found. Early the next morning we started for Glasgow, where the assistant adjutant-general and myself both expected to receive orders from the commanding general. We grounded near Cambridge and could not start again until the afternoon of the 13th. While lying aground I learned that Cambridge, a mile below us, was held by rebel conscripts and Shelby's men to the number of about fifty. I also received a dispatch from Captain Mayo, Thirteenth Missouri Cavalry, commanding at Glasgow, stating that his communications were cut off and asking for assistance. We ran by Cambridge without stopping, delivering our fire into the town and the woods below it as we passed, scattering the rebels, and arrived at Glasgow on the evening of the 13th without loss, excepting from disease.

I found that Captain Mayo had received orders from department headquarters to hold the city. The officers and leading citizens whom I met after landing, did not anticipate any attack other than from irregular troops and conscripts who had gathered near Keytesville, Roanoke, and Fayette. The garrison of the place, re-enforced by my command, was considered ample to defend it, although before our arrival considerable apprehension had been felt. Information had been received that Price's main army was at Boonville, and that some of his forces were at Arrow Rock, but it was further believed that he had been routed at Jefferson City; that our troops were in close pursuit of him; that he had no steam or other ferry boat with which to cross any large body of men with or without artillery; and that another columu of our army was as high up as Rocheport, advancing on the north bank of the river to intercept him and prevent the crossing, should he attempt it. No fears of an attack from Price's regular force had been entertained. The danger was thought to lie in the concentration of conscripts and bushwhackers, in a body, greatly exceeding Captain Mayo's small command, and then sweeping through the city for the sake of plunder. It was supposed also that on the next day the telegraph line to Allen could be repaired. As it would have been worse than useless to attempt to pass Arrow Rock and Boonville, when it was evident that we were no longer needed at Jefferson City, and as nothing seemed to justify the abandonment of Glasgow, I determined to remain there. On the morning of the 14th Captain Bingham, of the Saline County militia, with eighty-five mounted men, was sent out to re-establish telegraphic communications. He returned near night-fall, unsuccessful, having encountered about 250 rebels on his way. On the same day, also, the Benton's cargo was unloaded and Major Curtis proceeded up the river with her. In this bold undertaking I was very happy to hear that be succeeded. He did not reach his destination without having to run the gauntlet of the bushwhackers. Major Curtis, the master of the boat, Captain Fechto, and his officers and crew, are said to have exhib ited the most determined courage on the trip. I wish here to return my thanks to Major Curtis for his uniform readiness to perform all that I asked of him, and for the willing assistance which he gave me on all occasions. The West Wind, in the opinion of her master, drew too much water to venture to go with the Benton, and was subsequently disabled by the enemy's artillery, and later still, was burned by the rebels at the levee at Glasgow. After making myself somewhat acquainted with the ground, pickets were strengthened, the mounted men being advanced from one to two miles on the different roads; scouts were sent out and the battalion of the Forty-third was moved into camp in a good position, between the Huntsville plank road and the Fayette road. In the evening I assumed command of the post, with Lieut. I. H. Eldridge, Seventeenth Illinois Cavalry (who had reported to me for duty), as post-adjutant. The garrison consisted of 481 officers and men of the Forty-third Missouri, Ninth Missouri State Militia, Thirteenth Missouri Cavalry, and Seventeenth Illinois Cavalry, for duty, and about 150 militia and citizens. The fighting force on the next day, however, did not exceed 550 men, and we had no artillery. The Boon ville and Fayette roads both cross a creek which runs along the southern edge of the town, the bridges being a mile or more apart. The plank road enters the town between that creek and another running along the northern limits of the place. The Keytesville road and several others, including the Huntsville dirt road, converge and cross the northern creek near the bank of the Missouri River; the houses of the Messrs. Lewis are north of it on elevated ground. Captain Hunter, with parts of Companies B and M, Ninth Missouri State Militia, were stationed near the house of Mr. Ben. Lewis. Captain Mayo had charge of the bridge on the Boonville road. A strong infantry picket reserve was stationed at the bridge on the Fayette road, and the camp of the Forty-third Missouri was about equi-distant from Captains Hunter and Mayo, on a ridge between the Fayette and Huntsville plank roads. The citizen guards and some of the milita were quartered in town.

At 5 o'clock on the morning of the 15th the enemy opened upon the town with two pieces, a 12-pounder and a 6-pounder, rifled, from the opposite bank of the river. At the same time a scout came in and reported 900 men advancing from Keytesville. Sharpshooters were sent to drive back the artillery, and the mounted pickets in the direction of Keytesville were re-enforced, with instructions to skirmish back when attacked. A lieutenant of Captain Bingham's company Saline County independent militia was in charge of the picket. The sharpshooters drove the enemy's guns back into the woods and they did not annoy us much until later in the day. The lieutenant of the picket became in danger of being cut off and escaped with forty men to Macon City. Immediately after these arrangements were made one of the vedettes on the Boonville road came in and reported the enemy advancing in heavy force. It was not long before the head of the column appeared. The enemy deployed on the slope facing the creek south of the town under and in front of two field pieces which were placed in position on the crest of the heights. I sent Maj. B. K. Davis, of the Forty-third Missouri Volunteers, with three companies of that regiment, to hold the bank of the creek from the bridge on the Fayette road down toward Captain Mayo. Captain Dusold, with his company (A, Forty-third), was sent to re-enforce Captain Mayo; Captain Steinmetz, with a citizen company, was ordered to take ground between Davis and Mayo. The bridges had been made impassable by taking up the planks. Two companies of the Forty-third were left in camp with skirmishers out. Captain Hunter was a mile and a half north of the line thus formed and could not safely be withdrawn. The troops along the creek resisted the passage of it manfully, but soon had to be ordered back, as the enemy's force was so great that he was enabled not only to pass around both flanks, but to pour through the long intervals which necessarily existed in the line. By this time a brigade which had passed to the east of us was advancing upon my camp with one field gun, and the two companies there were hotly engaged. Another large body, which afterward proved to be Lawther's regiment, passed around still farther to the east, intending to enter the town from the north. In attempting this it fell in with the troops posted in the neighborhood of Mr. Lewis' place and was held in check by them all day. As these troops could not be moved from their position without letting Lawther down upon my left flank and rear, and were so remote as not to be engaged with any other portion of the enemy's army, no further mention need be made of them than that they fought with much gallantry, and that to them and their leaders, Captain Hunter and his officers and Lieutenant Eldridge, of the Seventeenth Illinois Cavalry, great praise is due for their obstinate resistance. The line of defense, to which we fell back from the creek, had for its right an elevation in town, around the crest of which some slight rifle-pits had been constructed, and for its left a brick school-house. About 800 yards north along the ridge between these points are several brick and wooden buildings. The retreat to this line was very slow, every possible opportunity being taken to retard the enemy's progress. Adjt. Joseph Thompson, of the Forty-third Missouri Volunteers, conducted the retreat of the two companies at my camp to the left of the new position with skill and bravery, punishing the enemy (Greene's brigade) very severely. Another company of the Forty-third was sent to him. Lieutenant-Colonel Hynes assisted on the right and, with Companies C and G (Captains Brown and Kirkham), Forty-third Missouri, turned upon one of Jackman's regiments, charged and broke it. Major Davis brought in and posted the center under a heavy fire in good order. In fact, none of the volunteers were thrown into disorder at any time, so far as my observation went.

During the morning a flag of truce came to me from the enemy's lines. It was borne by two citizens, who informed me that Brig. Gen. John B. Clark, jr., was in command of the forces in my front and on my flanks, having about 4,000 men; that Brigadier-General Shelby had his division on the opposite side, and that a steam-boat was on its way up to cross the river. As these gentlemen brought me no message from the rebel commander I had no answer to send. The rifle-pits were designed to hold about 250 men. To the east, southeast, and south were houses which were occupied by the enemy as fast as their artillery drove us out of them, except those which we were able to burn. The western face and the area inside of them, as well as the streets

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