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The resolutions were passed unanimously and enthusiastically.
After the adoption of the resolutions, Col. Switzler addressed the audience in a speech, in which he took strong grounds for sustaining
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the Government in an unrelenting prosecution of the war to a restora- tion of the Union, for sustaining the administration of Gov. Gamble, and for a willing support of the ordinance of emancipation. He de- nounced, in unqualified terms, the demagogues heading the radical faction, who strive to keep alive the slavery issue in Missouri. At the conclusion of his speech the meeting adjourned.
NEGRO EXODUS.
The existence of flagrant civil war practically abolished slavery, de- spite all constitutions and laws, for the legal ligament which bound the slave to the master became a very brittle and uncertain tenure. Therefore, as early as the summer of 1863, the negro exodus began and slaves abandoned their masters with impunity. Later in the year the adult males left in large numbers for the army, and for other States, and very few of them were reclaimed - most of them never.
FIRST PROVISIONAL REGIMENT M. M.
On September 1, 1863, Col. Joseph B. Douglass, Sixty-First Regi- ment E. M. M., was promoted to Brigadier General, and under an act of the Legislature, and by the authority of Gov. Gamble, took com- mand (as colonel ) of the First Provisional Regiment, with the following staff: Alex. F. Denny, Lieut. Col. ; Majors, Lewis P. Miller, James C. Bay and Robert Barclay, Jr. ; Adjutant, Frank D. Evans ; Quar- termaster, R. G. Lyell; Surgeon, Wm. Blair; Assistant Surgeons, Jordon Hayes and William A. Brown. Officers of Company A. : B. P. Ritchie, Captain ; Thomas A. Arnold, First Lieutenant ; John G. Strode, Second . Lieutenant. Company. K. : Samuel L. Cully, Cap- tain ; Miles J. Henly, First Lieutenant ; John I. Orr, Second Lieu- tenant. Headquarters of the regiment, Mexico. The regiment was mustered out of service in February, 1864.
A DIABOLICAL MURDER.
About 10 o'clock, on Thursday night, September 24, 1863, a dia- bolical murder was committed by a squad of Federal soldiers, on the person of Martin E. Oldham, who resided four miles west of Co- lumbia.
About the hour mentioned, four armed men dressed in Federal uniform came to the door of Mr. Oldham's residence and demanded admittance. One of them came in dancing, and in a few moments another came in, presenting his pistol and ordering the citizens pres-
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ent out of the house ; there being six in number in the house at the time, names as follows :- Joseph Gooding, a Mr. Johnson, Leonidas . Scott, William Oldham, J. R. Payne and John Meredith. These armed men ordered them out of the house, in line, and said : " We will settle that thing damn quick." They also ordered three horses caught, which was done. Martin E. Oldham had by this time come up to where the citizens were, and was formed in line with them. The deceased asked permission to go to the house and change his clothes, which he did, accompanied by one of the soldiers. One of the men calling himself Captain, took Mr. Johnson to one side and conversed with him. They ordered M. E. Oldham and Joseph Good- ing to mount their horses and go with them, leaving the balance of the citizens where they were. In about fifteen minutes Mr. Gooding returned from the direction of Robert Scott's, and the deceased did not return with him.
They took Mr. Oldham a short distance from his house, and hung him by the neck to the limb of a small tree, until he was dead, cut him down, and left him lying upon the ground. Such was the ver- dict of the coroner's jury. Coroner : George W. Rowland ; Jurors : Thomas J. Gillaspy, Sr., foreman ; J. B. McMickle, James H. Stephens, Robert Lemon, Ishmael Vanhorn and C. P. Hultz.
Mr. Oldham was an old citizen of the county, a man of family, and what was then called a secessionist.
Four soldiers of the Ninth M. S. M.,- Odell, Leadbetter, Weddell and Maples,- were arrested for the crime, indicted by the grand jury and committed to jail. At the May, 1864, term of the Boone Circuit Court, they obtained a change of venue to Audrain County, and on Thursday, June 9, 1864, James H. Waugh, sheriff, took them to St. Louis for safe keeping and lodged them in prison.
After much delay the prosecution was nolle pros'ed, it is believed by military order, and the prisoners discharged.
COLD THURSDAY.
Thursday, December 31, 1863, will long be remembered as " Cold Thursday." The oldest inhabitants doubted whether a day so cold was ever experienced in this latitude, since Winter, in the unnum- bered generations of the past, first put on its icy garments. A violent snow storm raged all day, and the thermometer ranged Thursday night and Friday morning, at twenty-three degrees below zero.
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SALE OF SLAVES.
1864. In the first portion of this chapter are given the prices at which slaves were sold on January 1, 1860, before the war. In in- structive contrast with the prices they then brought, is appended the following account of a sale, January 1, 1864, of the slaves belonging to the estate of John Shock, deceased, sold to the highest bidder, before the court house door, in Columbia, by Joel H. Haden and David Shock, executors ; terms cash :-
Jane, aged 48 years, sold to F. T. Russell. $ 86
Zerrelda, 7
" Henry Shock 170
Laura, 9
6 David Shock 150
Jim, 35
J. H. Haden 250
Kirt, 66 16 66 Henry Shock 200
Nat, 13
" Isam Williams 312
Hannah, 30 " and three children, aged 6, 4 and 1 year, to J. H. Haden 505
Also, of a public sale on Monday, January 25, 1864, by the sheriff, of 22 slaves belonging to John W. Rollins, for cash, as follows : -
To J. T. McBain, Alex, aged 43 years $132 00
" J. A. McQuitty, Green, aged 30 years. 80 00
" Dr. J. W. Roberts, Charles, aged 30 years. 150 00
" G. C. Swallow, Levi, aged 25 years ... 208 00
" J. W . Lamme, Essex, aged 30 years. 135 00
" J. W. Lamme, Joe, aged 21 years 140 00
" F. Herndon, William, aged 13 years. 161 00
" D. Guitar, Jerome, aged 8 years. 70 00
" J. W. Lamme, Eddy, aged 6 years 51 00
" A. L. Vandiver, Winny, aged 55 years. 101 00
" M. S. Matthews, Mary, aged 40 years, and her child, Odon, aged 18 months. 106 00
" Robert Schwabe, Hannah, aged 35 years 25 00
" D.,McQuitty, Margaret, aged 30 years.
50 00
145 00
" J. W. Lamme, Lucy, aged 30 years
" J. W. Lamme, Harriet, aged 16 years, and two children 170 00
" J. W. Lamme, Fanny, aged 12 years. 85 00
" J. A. McClancy, Julia, aged 10 years .. 135 00
" Mrs. W. F. Switzler, Laura, aged 9 years 93 00
" M. S. Matthews, Morgan, aged 4 years 43 50
Twenty-two negroes $2,080 50
On Saturday, at a constable's sale, a very likely negro man, Dick, aged 21 years, was bought by Wm. F. Switzler for $126 00; the slave sold was the property of Columbus B. Hickam.
NEGRO RECRUITS.
Lieut. Col. F. T. Russell, 61st Regiment., E. M. M., was Assistant Provost Marshal in Columbia for enlisting colored volunteers in accord-
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ance with General Orders No. 135, and he accepted the appointment and enlisted a large number. He resigned the position in July.
A SOLDIER OF "MERRILL'S HORSE " TAKEN FROM THE STAGE AND SHOT.
On Wednesday, July 20, 1864, the bushwhackers stopped the Cen- tralia stage at Hallsville, in this county, en route for the railroad, and inquired if there were any soldiers aboard. Mr. and Mrs. J. V. C. Karnes and a furloughed soldier of " Merrill's Horse," by the name of James Palmer, a young man of Cedar township, in this county, were in the stage, the latter dressed in citizen's clothes. Palmer told his name and acknowledged being a soldier, whereupon they ordered him out of the stage, cursed him and told him he was the very man they wanted, took his pistol from him, opened his trunk, and marched him off on the road leading west from Hallsville into a woodland belong- ing to the late Wm. Dunn, and shot him. On the 24th his body was found not far from Red Top church, covered with logs and brush. Capt. Smith, who then commanded the post at Sturgeon, ordered the people of that neighborhood to bury his body, which they did.
DESPERATE FIGHT WITH BUSHWHACKERS NEAR DRIPPING SPRING.
About the middle of August, 1864, this county had been cursed with the presence of quite large bodies of guerillas and horse thieves, wandering in armed bands over the county, and robbing the citizens night and day indiscriminately, of whatever property they possessed. General J. B. Douglass, the military commander of this district, being well posted in regard to their movements, made such a disposi- tion of a small portion of his forces as to give the outlaws to under- stand that they must cease their depredations in this quarter. In pursuance of this object, on Tuesday, August 16, he sent a company under the command of Captain Carey, of the 3d M. S. M., to a point some ten miles northwest of Columbia, where it was understood that Clif. Holtzclaw, and his band, were in considerable force, numbering probably 100 men, near what is called the Dripping Spring. On his arrival there he ascertained that the 17th Illinois, under the command of Captain Hibbard, had arrived on the ground the day before, and that on Monday night two of his pickets were fired upon from a corn- field and badly wounded - (one of whom died on the following night in Columbia), and that on Tuesday morning considerable skirmishing had been going on between them and the bushwhackers. Captain Carey, on his way out, was met also by Captain Cornell, of the E. M. M. and Captain Campbell, of the 9th M. S. M., with small detach-
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ments of their respective companies. Coming up on the enemy, a brisk engagement ensued, lasting some three quarters of an hour or more, in which four of the bushwhackers were killed and left on the field, and from the abundant signs of blood left upon the bushes, a good many were also wounded. Twelve or fifteen fine horses were captured and quite a number of guns and pistols. There was no one killed on the Federal side, but nine soldiers were slightly wounded. The enemy retreated into the thick brush and rugged country, the engagement ceased, and the command started in the direction of Columbia. On their way down, about four miles north of town they were fired upon by another band of these desperadoes - one man was slightly wounded, and also several horses. Upon the fire being returned by the troops, they fled precipitately to the woods, scattering in every direction. This last band was supposed to have been under the com- mand of Capt. Tom Todd, who was on his way to reinforce Holtzclaw.
The wounded men were all brought to Columbia and furnished with comfortable quarters. They were as follows : -
J. H. Hall, Company F, 17th Ill, wounded on picket duty in the arm and back; Wintling (died), Company F, 17th Ill., wounded on picket duty in the breast and limbs; Theodoric Russell, Company L, 9th M. S. M., knee; Elisha Howell, leg, Jas. C. Matthews, neck, Wm. J. Cayhill, hip, Company G, 3d M. S. M .; Elliott Baker, arm, Simon Johnson, cheek, Lewis Perry, side, Company B, 3d M. S. M.
One of the guerrillas killed was John Kincaid, of this county, who was riding at the time of his death a horse taken from Jere Orear, of Co- lumbia, several days ago. Another man killed was Geo. Jones, son of Lewis Jones, of this county. The guerillas did not return to bury their dead, but it was done by the women and negroes of the neighbor- hood. It is also definitely ascertained that sixteen guerrillas were wounded in the engagements.
THE FIGHT IN GOSLINE'S LANE - CAPTURE OF A WAGON TRAIN - ELEVEN FEDERAL SOLDIERS KILLED.
On Friday, September 23, 1864, a Federal train of fourteen wagons, four government wagons, and the remainder pressed for the occasion, started from Sturgeon to Rocheport. The train was escorted by about seventy men of the 3d M. S. M. under Capt. McFadden. The wagons were loaded principally with some subsistence, with ammuni- tion, clothing and private property belonging to officers and soldiers. The majority of the wagons and teams were pressed from private citizens of the neighborhood and belonged to and were driven by
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W. W. Batterton (present County Clerk ), Bellfield Crosswhite,
Barnes, and Michael Spillman. George Wayne, a colored man be- longing to Anthony Wayne, drove one of the teams. The escort and train travelling south from Sturgeon stopped near sunset in the lane of Sylvester F. Gosline, on section 10, township 49, range 14, about seven miles from Rocheport. A few of the soldiers were in Mr. Gos- line's yard and some of them in his orchard gathering apples ; most of the command and all of the wagons were in the lane about 200 yards from the house. On the west side of the house (the escort and wagons being east of the house ), and running north and south, there is a narrow neighborhood lane communicating with the main lane in front and southwest of Gosline's house. Without the least warning or expectation of their presence, and very suddenly, a force number- ing about 100 mounted men under Thomas and George Todd and John Thrailkill charged at full speed down this lane, yelling like In- dians as they came, and made a desperate attack upon the escort and train, firing indiscriminately and with deadly effect upon the soldiers. The charge was so sudden that the Federal soldiers had not even time to form in line for battle. Under these circumstances they were scattered and no alternative left but to save themselves by flight. Some escaped by abandoning their horses and going into a corn field which was on one side of the road ; and some rode across the country to Columbia and others went back to Sturgeon. Some of the soldiers had neither arms nor horses and were riding in the wagons. The train was taken possession of by the guerrillas. Among other things they got eighteen thousand rounds of ammunition, a lot of clothing, and private baggage belonging to the officers and soldiers. After the train had been robbed of everything the bushwhackers could use, the wagons and their remaining contents were burned.
Eleven Federal soldiers were found dead on the ground and three negroes, Geo. Wayne being one of them, who was shot in the fore- head. We have not been able to obtain the names of the soldiers who were killed.
Mr. Batterton, while sitting in his wagon on the stores with which it was loaded, holding the reins of his horses, was wounded by the guer- illas in the right shoulder, and Mr. Crosswhite in the heel.
A team belonging to James D. Patton, of Sturgeon, and driven by -, started up the road after the wagon was fired, and near Marion Mckinney's ran against a tree, or was overturned in a gully, killing one of the horses.
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After robbing and firing the wagon train and killing and scattering the escort, the guerillas left the scene by the same lane through which they approached it, none of them having been killed, and only one mortally wounded. Bill Anderson was not among them.
THE CARNAGE AT CENTRALIA. -
MASSACRE OF UNARMED FEDERALS, TAKEN FROM A TRAIN, BY BILL ANDERSON - ANNI- HILATION OF THE FEDERAL FORCE UNDER MAJ. JOHNSON BY THE FORCES OF TODD, THRAILKILL, ANDERSON AND POOLE - PURSUIT OF THE GUERILLAS.
After the fight in Gosline's lane, September 23, Geo. Todd and John Thrailkill went to Howard County and formed a junction with Bill Anderson and his company of 75 men. Rev. Tom Todd, a Baptist minister, and Si Gordon, each had a band. Todd's numbering 50, Gordon's 25, and Dave Poole had about 60. The aggregated force seemed really to have no commander, but George Todd was the lead- ing spirit, and perhaps next to him John Thrailkill. If there was speculation as to the future, or doubt as to present purposes, " What does George say?" was the first question asked. The grim, sturdy- looking, Scotch-Canadian rode stolidly along, seeming to know what he was about, and to be revolving extraordinary enterprises. It was his design to carry out Gen. Price's instructions and " keep the Fed- eral militia north of the river actively employed ; " and finally to cross the Missouri in the neighborhood of Jefferson City, and join the Con- federate army when it should make its appearance in that quarter, as it was preparing to do.
Moving northward, the guerillas passed into Randolph county. Anderson attacked Allen, then a small station on the North Missouri Railroad, near where Moberly now stands, sacked it, and passed into Monroe with the remainder of the guerilla force. An attack on Paris was contemplated, but citizens of Monroe reported that place garrisoned by Kutzner's regiment of Missouri infantry, and, remem- bering the Fayette disaster, Todd marched by Middle Grove and on eastward into the timbered region along Young's Creek.
About this time the pickets of Bill Anderson, who were dressed in Federal uniform, were fired on by some of the command of Capt. G. W. Bryson of Boone, who was then in that region on recruiting service by authority of Gen. Price. The firing by Bryson's men was soon discovered by him to be a mistake, they. supposing
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Anderson's pickets to be Federal soldiers, and a lieutenant was sent to Anderson to make the needed explanation and to propose a union of their forces. Anderson indignantly refused to receive him. " Your men are either d-d fools or worse," he said, " or you would not have fired at us. I don't want anything to do with you or any other of Perkins's men." Col. Perkins was at that time raising a regiment for the Confederate army from this section, and to this regiment Bryson's company belonged.
The guerillas made their way up Young's Creek, going southward, crossed the North Missouri Railroad about two and a half miles east of Centralia, and marched to the farm of Col. M. G. Singleton, an ex- Confederate officer then at home on parole and under bond. Here on the evening of September 26, 1864, they encamped.
Col. Singleton had plenty of forage and provisions to which the guerillas helped themselves very liberally ; and forays were made into the neighborhood, and every family visited was forced to prepare food for the guests, who thus came uninvited and for the most part unwelcomed.
BILL ANDERSON'S CAMP, EQUIPMENTS AND FORCE.
The guerilla camp was well chosen. Water, grass, and shade abounded, and above all coveted seclusion, and sufficient proximity to Col. Singleton's large barn, which at night could be used by a part of the command for sleep and repose. On all sides of the camp there was a long stretch of prairie, so that a hostile force could be discovered miles away, and in ample time to prevent a surprise.
Here it was the purpose of the guerillas to rest for a few days, capture and rob a train on the railroad only a short distance to the north of them, and then hasten to a crossing on the Missouri River and to safety in Price's army.
The total number of the guerillas in camp at Singleton's farm could not have been far from 350-not many more, not many less. Poole said there were 400. Todd did not pretend to know. Thrail- kill said 350. Rev. Tom Todd reported there were 325. A citizen counted them next morning as they passed through a lane and reported their number at 428, but they had been reënforced after their stay at Singleton's. Some placed the number at 300, with about 260 prepared to fight as guerrillas fight ; for the equipments of a guerrilla consist of a good horse, with a good saddle and bridle, and at least
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four dragoon revolvers, with every chamber of every cylinder carefully loaded.
Todd's men were thus armed and equipped for duty and for danger. There were but few shot guns or carbines in the command, and only a few revolvers of smaller size and caliber than a dragoon or navy size pistol. One of these, a five-inch Colt's, was ploughed up in the spring of 1882, on the field of James Garrard, where Thrailkill's men fought, with the wood of the handle decayed, but the metal not much injured, the silver plating not tarnished, and every chamber loaded. The night of September 26th was chiefly spent by Todd, Thrailkill, Poole and Anderson in consultation. They knew there was a Federal force at Sturgeon, one at Mexico, and one north of Centralia, some- where between Mexico and Paris. Troops were also known to be at Columbia, and much coveted plunder. The temptation was strong to attack the latter place, capture it if possible, sack and burn it, and hasten on to Rocheport, sometimes called by bushwhackers "our capital," and there cross the river. But circumstances forbade, and it was well for them and for Columbia likewise they did forbid.
THE GUERILLAS ENTER CENTRALIA.
About 10 o'clock on the morning of September 27, 1864, the few citizens of the little hamlet of Centralia were about their ordinary avocations, unsuspecting that any event of extraordinary character was about to occur. The town then contained about a dozen houses, including two hotels, two small stores, a school house, and the depot. The hotels were small. One of them, the " Eldorado House," then kept by Col. Jo. J. Collier, is still standing, and is now occupied as a tenement house. It is a one-story frame, and a rambling L-shaped structure. The other was a two-story frame, owned and conducted by Thos. S. Sneed, and stood on the present site of the Globe Hotel. The stores were owned, one by J. W. Ball, and the other by Thos. S. Sneed, still a citizen of Centralia. The stocks were neither very large nor very valuable. There were but two two-story buildings in the place ; and about the town, and especially toward the north and west of it, there were miles of open prairie.
At about the hour above named, a countryman came into the town and reported, with bated breath, that the bushwhackers were near. " There are 300 or 400 of them down at Col. Singleton's, and Quan- trell and Bill Anderson and all of the rest of the big bushwhackers are at the head. Hell will be to pay in this country, now!" Near the
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same time another scout came in and reported that Capt. G. W. Bryson was lying out in the woods to the north of town wounded and suffering from an encounter with Kutzner's men under Maj. A. V. E. Johnson, over on Young's Creek, or near Santa Fe, Monroe County, a day or two before. Secret preparations were being made to render him some assistance -to procure a buggy in which to remove him into the timber near Hallsville, and Dr. A. F. Sneed was solicited to visit and render him medical and surgical aid.
But lo ! suddenly to the southeast a company of mounted men, probably about 80 in all, was seen approaching the town in a brisk trot. As the men were dressed in blue, at least a large majority of them, they were thought to be Federal militia ; but their true char- acter was soon made apparent. The group about the messenger who was seeking assistance for Capt. Bryson departed and the bush- whackers began to scatter about the town. Every house was entered. A few of the intruders were civil and gentlemanly, but nearly all were otherwise. "Got any grub cooked?" "Got any greenbacks ?" "Are you all rebels or union?" These were the usual greetings. Replying to questions from the citizens : " We are Bill Anderson's men," they said with exultation.
Anderson himself rode straight to the Eldorado House and was soon in conversation with the landlord and Vol. Collier.
DR. SNEED'S EXPERIENCE WITH THE GUERILLAS.
Dr. Sneed passed down the street and Collier beckoned to him. When he came up said Vol Collier, " Dr. Sneed, this is Captain Anderson! " Imagine the doctor's sensations ! " Captain " Anderson entered into friendly conversation, sitting on his horse like a knight- errant and speaking as smoothly. " This is a fine location, doctor," he said. "A pretty place for a fight. If those Feds. up at Sturgeon will come down, I will give them a twist to-day. I don't want to go up there, and I won't, but if they will come down here I'll fight them."
Just then the doctor saw his horse was being led away by a bush- whacker, and he called Anderson's attention to it. " Go and get him ; tell that man I say he must not take your horse." Dr. S. started and had gone only a few steps when he was met by another guerilla with a drawn pistol. " Out with your pocket book," demanded the brigand. " Excuse me, but your captain sent me after that horse," said the doctor, not halting, and leaving the bush-
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whacker nonplussed by his coolness. A few steps further anoher guerilla confronted him. " Hand out your pocket book," said he. " Excuse me," said the doctor, blandly, "but you are a little too late ; I have just been interviewed by your comrade yonder." When he met other guerillas that morning who demanded his purse, the doctor always replied, " You are too late."
PLUNDERING THE TOWN - WHISKY.
Meantime the guerillas were cleaning out the town very thoroughly. The stores of Ball and Sneed were robbed of nearly every article they contained. Goods were taken for which the bushwhackers had no use - calicoes, muslins, women's shoes, even baby slippers. The robbery was wanton and indiscriminate. The depot also was plundered. There were some goods in the freight house boxed up and awaiting transmission to merchants in Columbia. Among other articles were three or four cases of boots. These were appropriated quite speedily. There was also a barrel. " What's in this?" "By golly ! It's whisky !" In five seconds the head was broken in and '3 anti-prohibition " flowed down the throats of the guerillas like water after a long and sultry ride.
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