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3. John W. Davis, Greenfield, Mo.
4. William II. Hubb, Greenfield, M.o 5. John J. Pyett, Bolivar, Mo. Thomas Roberts, Bugler, Bolivar, Mo. Oskar M. Griggsby, Bolivar, Mo. Edward Barbour, Gerier, Pittsburg, Mo. James Taylor, Blacksmith, Greenfield, Mo. Privates :
Jolm H. Anderson, Stockton, Mo. Severly Barbour, Pittsburg, Mo. Israel W. Burns, Pittsburg, Mo. Proctor M. Burns, Pittsburg, Mo. William W. Bishop, Pittsburg, Mo. Zach A. Bond, Pittsburg, Mo. William Box, Pittsburg, Mo. Jacob Beem, Pittsburg, Mo. Warner Bridger, Pittsburg, Mo. Daniel P. Brock, Pittsburg, Mo. William Bird, Greenfield, Mo. William S. Beal, Greenfield, Mo.
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Robert A. Bales, Greenfield, Mo. James B. Dering, Greenfield, Mo. Berry Duncan, Greenfield, Mo. Olivar Duncan, Greenfield, Mo. Green Darrell, Greenfield, Mo. Turley Emerson, Bolivar, Mo. Nimrod Ford, Springfield, Mo. Thomas Frazier, Bolivar, Mo. James Gibbs, Greenfield, Mo. William J. Griffin, Bolivar, Mo. Thomas B. Griffin, Bolivar, Mo. William D. Griffis, Bolivar, Mo. Samuel Graves, Bolivar, Mo. John Q. Greer, Bolivar, Mo. Samuel M. Griffith, Bolivar, Mo. Nathan Hunt, Mt. Vernon, Mo. Marion Hornbeck, Stockton, Mo. Claborn H. Harman, Buffalo, Mo. William L. Holloway, Bolivar, Mo. John Huckaby, Stockton, Mo. Jacob Huft, Stockton, Mo. John Heard, Pittsburg, Mo. John B. Hart, Pittsburg, Mo. James Ingles, Sentinel Prairie, Mo. Sammel King, Greenfield, Mo. Josiah Kimberlan, Greenfield, Mo. William C. Kilingsworth, Greenfield, Mo. Josiah Lane, Bolivar, Mo. Harvie H. Morris, Greenfield, Mo. Harvie L. Morris, Greenfield, Mo. Maxwell Mitchell, Greenfield, Mo. James A. Mitchell, Greenfield, Mo. John A. Mitchell, Greenfield, Mo. Moses B. Mitchell, Greenfield, Mo. Francis M. McGinnis, Bolivar, Mo. Green M. McGinnis, Bolivar, Mo. James M. Molone, Bolivar, Mo. Thomas C. Antens, Greenfild, Mo. Thomas B. Puckett, Greenfield, Mo.
BERRY G. THURMAN.
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Natlıan K. Pope, Bolivar, Mo. Henry J. Pope, Bolivar, Mo. Thomas Paterson, Bolivar, Mo. Tilman B. Perryman, Bolivar, Mo. John Polard, Stockton, Mo. Barney Pitts, Elkton, Mo.
David Parsons, Elkton, Mo. David Rutledge, Springfield, Mo. Charles Roundtree, Elkton, Mo. Thomas Roberts, Fayettville, Ark. Jesse Robinett, Greenfield, Mo. Samuel Rodgers, Greenfield, Mo. James E. Saling, Greenfield, Mo. John M. Saling, Greenfield, Mo. Raleigh J. Shipley, Greenfield, Mo. Ephriam B. Shipley, Greenfield, Mo. John Simons, Greenfield, Mo. Frederick Soloman, Greenfield, Mo. John R. Sewell, Springfield, Mo. Elisha Starkey, Elkton, Mo. William C. Talent, Stockton, Mo. Francis A. Tuckness, Buffalo, Mo. Newton J. Underwood, Greenfield, Mo. William C. Watkins, Greenfield, Mo. George W. Watkins, Greenfield, Mo. Jason Williams, Humansville, Mo. William Wilson, Greenfield, Mo. Benjamin Wood, Bolivar, Mo. James M. Zumalt, Bolivar, Mo. James A. Brown, Arkansas. James W. Davenport, Greenfield, Mo. Terry W. Davenport, Greenfield, Mo. David W. Duncan, Bolivar, Mo. Oscar M. Grigsby, Bolivar, Mo. John W. McDowell, Greenfield, Mo. Willis Price, Prairie County, Arkansas. Charles Spencer, Arkansas. William Gay, Greenfield, Mo.
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Feelix J. Appleby, Greenfield, Mo. Thomas Puckett, Greenfield, Mo.
The above is a complete list of officers and privates of Company M, 8th Missouri Voluntary Cavalry. I was the first man that volunteered in this company. It was the first company that was made up in Greenfield, Missouri for the United States service and out of 65 men that went into this company, there are only three of that number now living in the county. Uncle James Taylor is living in Lockwood. He is about 90 years old; John A. Mitchell, 79. He is living on a farm six miles northwest of Green- field on the Coal Bank road, and the writer of this history, Raleigh J. Shipley, is living on a farm one-half mile west and one mile north of the Public Square of Greenfield, the County Seat of Dade County, Missouri. I am living about one mile from the old farm that my father settled on in the fall of 1852, but he came here from Warren County, Tennessee, in the fall of 1850, almost 66 years ago. I was six years old the 26th of June, when we landed in Dade County, the first of November, 1850. I lived with my parents until the war broke out, but didn't enlist in the regular army until the 30th of August, 1862. My father was a cripple and I was put to plowing when I was only ten years old. I never had any schooling. I never was in school over two months in my life. What little education I have I got by studying the school books that I bought for my children to go to school. I have always been in favor of good public schools. I served twenty years out of thirty on the School Board after I went to housekeeping. This picture was taken for the History on the 24th day of Octo- ber, 1916, on the south side of our home on the east side of the Greenfield and Stockton road. I was 72 years old the 26th of last June and Mrs. Shipley was 70 the 7th day of last April. The object of this picture is to show to this generation and to the next generation just how we had to work and make a living. My wife and I moved to an 80-acre piece of land two miles east of Lockwood. There was an old log building on the land when I bought
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it. The house was about the center of the eighty, but the roof, floor and doors were all rotted down and taken away. I took the house down and moved it to the northeast corner of the eighty and rebuilt it. I made clapboards two feet long, went to the timber and cut my rafters. They were post oak and black oak poles. I scalped off one side of them to straighten the top side of them. I put the rafters up and made out to get rough edge sheeting enough to nail the two foot boards on. I put them on shingle fashion; that is, it just showed eight inches. I boxed up the gable ends and we moved into the house without windows or door shutter or chimney. Now I am going to tell you about our furniture. My father and I went to my grandfather's Son's Creek farm and got some walnut rails out of the fence and made a bedstead and bored holes through the side and head rails and also some rope cord to hold up the bedding, and the other bedstead I took a two-inch auger and bored one hole in the back wall and one in the side wall just back of the door and then I took a round pole about four inches through and three feet long and bored two holes into it, and then took a pole six and one-half feet long and put it in one hole in the wall and the other end in the bedpost. . Then I put one four feet long in the other hole in the wall and the other end in the post and then I nailed a piece of timber to the wall to hold up my slats and that was our other bedstead. Our table was made out of rough oak plank about 3x4 feet in length. I bought three or four country-made chairs, and we have also in our house a small arm chair that I got Squire Warren to make for our oldest child, Anna. She was born the 10th day of March, 1867. It has been 49 years since I had the chair made. She was eight months old and that would make the chair 49 years old. Every piece of the chair is good yet. We raised seven children and they all used it and several of our grandchildren use it. Our boy Albert wore the front and back post almost into the rounds. He would turn it down and push it all over the house learning to walk.
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Now I will get back to the old log cabin. We moved in this cabin without any floor or door shutters. I bought a stone chimney of Marion Holder about two miles east of my house, and took my father's ox team and wagon and would haul stone all day and at night I would build up a fire on one side of the house and I would chink the cracks in that side before we went to bed and the next night I would build my fire for a light to work by and chink, and mother says I kept moving around in this way until I got the house all chinked. I got enough floor- ing plank from my uncle George Shipley, which they had taken out of a barn, that had been used for a threshing floor. I also got enough lumber from him to make two doors. I made the doors out of rough oak lumber. I went to the timber and cut some small logs and hued one side of them and put them in for sleepers then laid the floor; then father and I drug up a lot of logs and rolled them together and hauled a few loads of lime stone rock and put on the logs then set it afire and burnt lime to point my house and put up my chimney. I hired Uncle James Mitchell, a brother to my mother, to help me put up the chimney and point the cracks in the house and make and hang my door shutters. We lived in this house about seven years. We cooked our grub in these old pots that is shown in this picture, and Mrs. Shipley carded the cot- ton and spun the thread on the old spinning wheel that is shown in the picture and then wove the cloth on an old home-made loom that made our under bed ticks, table cloths and hand towels. The scythe and cradle is what we cut our wheat and oats with. I have cut hundreds of acres with one of them. I cut, bound and shocked fifty dozen a day and I have mowed, raked and shocked ten ton of prairie hay a day with a mowing blade and pitch fork. I never plowed with two horses to a breaking or stubble plow before the Civil War. We did all of our breaking with a yoke of oxen. My father always kept a big yoke of oxen to plow and do our hauling with and I have driven as many as five and six yoke of oxen to a prairie plow. I hauled hundreds of loads of wood from my father's old
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home place to Greenfield right along the Old Papinsville road that runs right by my door with old Buck and Berry. We chopped the timber and split the rails to fence our farm. I have chopped the timber and split thousands of rails in my life. I cut, bound and shocked six acres of wheat the year I was 66 years old. That was six years ago last harvest and I have my doubts if there is another man in the county or maybe not in the state that can cut that amount of grain by hand. The forty acre tract of land my father bought in 1852 had two small log rooms on it and four or five acres of land in cultivation. The land was timbered land, so we would clear the timber and brush off three or four acres every winter and we would make rails out of the best of the timber to fence the land, the rest of the timber we would use for fire wood and we hauled some to town and the big rough logs we rolled up in log heaps and burnt them to get them out of the way. I have seen lots of better timber burnt up than we have to use for saw timber now. My father built a good log house on the place a few years after we settled on the place and lived in that house as long as he lived. He died when I was thirty-six years old and my mother died about three or four years later. My mother's maiden name was Mitchell. Her father, James Mitchell, had six boys and four girls. My mother was the third child in the family. The first child was a boy, William Mitchell, the second a girl, Mary Mitchell and my mother's name was Lucinda Mitchell. The Mitchell family are all dead but one, that is Elizabeth Cartwright. She is living in Lockwood now, with her oldest daughter, Sarah J. Larence. She is 81 years old. My grandfather was 85 years old when he died. He was of Dutch descent and my grandmother was of Irish decent. Her maiden name was Martha McGregory. On my father's side my Grandfather Shipley was of Irish decent. His father came from Ireland in an early day. He was among the Puritans, the first settlers in America. My grandfather, Raleigh Shipley, was born and lived in North Carolina, but moved to Waren County, Tennessee when a young man and was among the first settlers of
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Tennessee. He was in General Jackson's army in 1812 and went with General Jackson to Mobile, Alabama. He lived to be 85 years old. My grandmother Shipley was of Dutch decent and she had been dead several years before we left Tennessee. Father came to Dade county in the fall of 1851 and settled on a farm two miles southeast of Greenfield, Missouri. His family is all dead except two girls and one boy. Aunt Lucinda Mitchell, the oldest girl that is living, is in Greenfield. She is ninety-some odd years old, the other girl is living out near Golden City in the west part of Dade county. She is eighty odd years old. George M. Shipley is 72 years old and is living in Lock- wood, Missouri. He served three years in Company A, Sixth Missouri Volunteer Cavalry in the Union Army.
My father lived on his farm three miles northwest of . Greenfield all through the Civil War. He had the last horse taken, two or three times during the war, and Price's Army took about everything that he raised on the farm in the summer of 1862. One brigade of Price's army camped on old Unele Clement C. Malicoat's land just southeast of my father's farm on what is now the Gass farm. One good thing was that the Confederate Army never took our big yoke of oxen nor our milk cow and father had a small bunch of sheep and mother carded and spun the wool and made cloth to clothe the family and one thing I re- member my mother had spun the thread and wove the cloth-it was mixed Jeans. She had it layed away to make me a snit of clothes out of and my mother and her mother, old Grandmother Mitchell were right good tailor- esses and they ent and made me a suit of clothes and I was married in them, and kept that suit of clothes for Sunday suit and there was one other thing that took place while I was at home on a furlow, after I had the measles. I was at Springfield, Missouri with the measles when Marmaduke came there on the 8th of January, 1863 and I was detailed and sent to Greenfield the ninth day after the measles broke out on me. I took cold on the measles and was eonfied to my bed four weeks, was not able to get out of bed only as I was helped in and out and
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didn't get back to my regiment until the second day of April, 1863. The regiment was at Lake Springs twelve miles southeast of Rolla, Missouri. It was then that I was taken prisoner by Kinch West and his little band. There wasn't but six of the little band, and they had just started ont to equip themselves for their warfare. They took some of my clothing and my blanket and Kinch told me they were watching the road to get arms and ammunition and clothing and horses. When Kinch put on my cavalry jacket he said: "Now I am as good a govern- ment soldier as you are." He had a pair of government pants when he took me prisoner. I didn't have any arms with me. He said it was war times and that if I ever got any of them prisoner I conld treat them just like they had treated me. They kept up this watching and robbing government soldiers over on that old Springfield road until the Seventh Missouri Militia was camped at Greenfield and a squad of them went out on the Springfield road where Kinch's father lived and burnt his house and that caused Kinch to burn some honses and then the militia boys went and killed Kinch's father and then Kinch killed several soldiers and got to be quite a bushwhacker and after they killed his father he swore vengenance against the men that killed him and Kinch had friends living in and near Greenfield that got the names of the men that killed his father and after the war was over he hunted them up and killed them. I was told by good authority a few years ago that he was the man that killed MeInturf and Wilson down in the Indian Territory 20 or 25 years ago. Wilson was a soldier in the company that was camped at Green- field at the time old man West was killed and the man that told me about the killing said Kinch told the people down there that when he killed Wilson that he had got the last of them.
Now I want to tell another little thing that happened while I was at home that time. I had brought a gun home with me and a few nights after I came home (we had a dog there that would give us warning if there was any one about the place) one night just after dark he com-
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menced barking out south of the house. So I said to my father: "There is some one out in the brush or timber," so he took my gun and a good old rifle he had and went down just south of the barn and crawled under an apple tree and sat down against the body of the tree and he hadn't been there very long until he heard some one climb over the gate about 50 yards south of the barn so he let the man get within about 30 yards of him and he said he could see that he had a bridle or halter in one hand and he was satisfied that he was aiming to get a horse out of the barn, so he raised one of the guns up and shot at him. He said when he shot the man jumped up in the air three or four feet high and as he run off he grabbed the other gun and shot at him. So the next morning as soon as it was light enough so my two brothers could see they went out where my father said the man was. They wanted to see if there was any blood there or any sign of him being hurt, but the boys couldn't see any blood but brother Will saw a little piece of newspaper on the ground. He picked it up, unfolded it, and there was a ten dollar green- back folded up in the paper. The boys came running back to the house. Mother says, "What did you find?" Will says, "We didn't find any blood but I found a ten dollar bill father shot out of him." We had a right smart wood lot that took in the spring and we had a little field that joined the lot that they gathered the corn out of, and they turned the cows and the horse out in there every day, so about three days after he had shot the ten dollar bill out of the man the horse was stolen out of the stalk field. So we always thought that it was the man that was shot at that got the horse.
I have been a Republican politically. I cast my first vote in 1864 for Abraham Lincoln. I think the best man that this American government ever produced. I served two years as road overseer in the south half of North Township about twenty-five years ago, and I served years as road commissioner in Center Township about twelve years ago, and when the County came under Township or- ganization I was elected member of the township board as
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CHARLES W. GILLMAN.
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member for West Center and at the next election was re- elected for two years again, and I served two years as Justice of the Peace before I was elected a member of the board and I was elected Justice both terms that I served on the board making six years I served as Justice of the Peace in Center Township. The above writeup was done by
RALEIGH J. SHIPLEY, Center Township, Greenfield, Mo.
THE RAID OF THE KINCH WEST AND ROBERTS GUERRILLAS ON GREENFIELD IN 1864.
by
Captain J. W. Carmack.
About September 1st, 1864 I was at home from my service in the Sixth Cav. Mo. Vols. at Melville (now Dade- ville) Missouri. From there I visited Greenfield to see some friends. At that time General Sterling Price was in southwestern Missouri organizing his rebel forces for a raid through the state and the citizens of Greenfield were very much excited believing the town would be visited and probably burned during the raid. I was delegated by them to go to Springfield to see General Sanborn, who was in command in this territory, and to appeal to him for troops to protect Greenfield. I went and made my plea in their behalf. He asked me if I would help to organize the mil- itia in Dade county for protection against the raid. I told him I would do all in my power in recruiting and organiz- ing for defense. He then said, "Go back home and make ready, and in a few days I will furnish you with proper credentials and instructions."
Price Raiders Threatened; and a Defense Company Is Organized .- I returned to Melville and in a few days re- ceived my commission and instructions and was ordered to report to Captain J. M. Kirby of the enrolled militia for conference as to organization. After conferring with Cap-
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tain Kirby we made a call upon the men available for military duty in Dade County to meet us in Greenfield, September 16th, 1864, and on that date we organized a company as follows:
Captain-James M. Kirby.
First Lieutenant-Cyrus S. Jacobs.
Second Lieutenant-J. W. Carmack.
And designated as Company "E" 76th Cav. Enrolled Missouri Militia with the following non-commissioned of- ficers and men :
Sergeants-Summerville D. Brown, Nathan Dinwid- die, W. V. Potter, W. W. Ward, Orville Lyon, Martin D. Edge, James C. Woody, Solomon Wilson.
Corporals-James W. Berry, John T. Goforth, Jona- than Weir, Samuel L. Hankins, William L. Hankins, Wil- liam L. Lee, Jeptha Cantrell, Thos. C. Cantrell and David Primer.
Blacksmiths-Henry McManus, Enoch Casey.
Wagoner-Henry D. Smith.
Privates-Samuel Acuff, Foster L. Appleby, Joseph Allison, Justin Bowles, John A. Bailes, John Bell, Robert Bird, James Boyd, John W. Boyd, Sam. L. Bigley, Dekalb Bowles, James Buchanan, B. F. Clopton, John T. Gates, F. A. Cardwell, William Coble, David Coble, Hiram Can- trell, James Casey, James M. Clabough, James Daughtrey, John H. Dill, James Durnal, Ebenezer Divine, James J. Divine, Ben L. Edge, Wiley S. Ethridge, Thos. Fanning, F. M. Foust, William Foust, James Friar, Robert Freedle, T. P. Fitzpatrick, Arkley Frieze, John A. Morgan.
Some of the Enrolled Missouri Militia soldiers who were subject to call and out on leave, were then called in by Captain Kirby which swelled our number to 103 men.
Munitions from Springfield Are Stored in the Old Wells Hotel .- Now being fully organized with muster-in roll complete, the next thing. was to procure rations, arms and ammunition. I was again delegated to see General Sanborn in Springfield and armed with the proper cre- dentials I went and made requisition and was furnished rations for the command for 30 days, also with eighty 70-
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calibre muskets and 8,000 rounds of ammunition. Return- ing with the supplies we stored the commissary supplies in the Shields hotel, afterwards the Delmonico, and stored our arms and ammunition in the second story of that building.
The Price raid was on in earnest by this time, but had not yet been molested at this point. However, reports were current that Greenfield would be burned during the raid. We found out all we could of our situation and said but little, keeping our eye on the focus and our ear to the ground and making ready for any emergency.
West-Roberts Guerrillas Appear Along Turnback and Lynn Branch .- Soon Kinch West and Fate Roberts, with their gang of bushwhackers and robbers, began to roam along Turnback creek and Lynn Branch, just east and south of our headquarters. So far as we knew they might have been on a fishing trip, as no one was being molested by them that we could learn. We did not meddle ourselves with their business methods; just let things take their course, keeping our eye on the focus and ear to the ground.
Day after day they became more conspicuous but seemed very unconcerned about the surroundings. Price's raiders came nearer and nearer. We paid no attention to General Price, thinking he had force sufficient to care for himself but still kept our eye on the focus and ear to the ground.
Kinch West's Sister Comes to Town; Warns Officers of Coming Raid .- On the 15th of October, 1864, in the afternoon, a young lady on horseback rode into Green- field, dismounted and made a casual tour around the town. Upon her return toward her horse I made it a point to meet her and accosted her saying:
"You seem to be in a hurry."
"No, not much," she responded.
"Who are you?" I asked.
"My name is West," she responded.
"What West?" I asked.
"Kinch West's sister," she replied.
"What's your business here?" I asked.
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"Kinch sent me here to see if the soldiers had been reinforced last night and said if they had not he was going to take breakfast in Greenfield tomorrow morning and then burn the town."
I asked how many men Kinch had with him.
"About 125 I think."
"Does he think he can take Greenfield with 125 men?" I asked.
"Yes," she responded, "If he couldn't take Green- field with 125 men when it only has 40 in it, he'd better quit."
"How does he know how many men there are in Greenfield ?" I asked.
She said, "Do you know - and _? "
I said, "I think I did."
She said, "they sent a note last night by a boy to Kinch at Jesse McClain's telling there were only 40 militia- men in Greenfield and Kinch sent me to see if any more had come in last night. I wish you men would get out of Greenfield. Kinch don't want to kill you men, but if you stay here and interfere you will get killed. He says he has burnt Melville and intends to burn Greenfield to- morrow morning."
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