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very great privations at the hands of the soldiery from either army, nor were they generally greatly molested by the robbers and eut- throats who took the advantage of the country's condition of war, to indulge their thieving and murderous propensities.
CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS, OFFICERS AND PRIVATES.
We have no accurate means of knowing the number of men who entered the Confederate army from Howard county. The number could have not been less than 1,500 men, from the beginning of the war to its close. It is supposed from the best information that can now be obtained, that between 500 and 700 men joined General Sterling Priee while on his last raid through this portion of the state. These soldiers were composed of all classes and ages, from men of three seore years to the mere stripling of fifteen. Probably not more than one-third of the entire number who entered the army remained until its close, or did the duty of a soldier for any considerable length of time.
We have made every effort that we could to get the names of these soldiers, but failed, except as to a portion of them, which we have classed under the heads of officers and privates.
CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS. Officers.
John B. Clark, Sr., brig .- general ; Hugh Stewart, captain ; John B. Clark, Jr., brig .- general ; J. L. Calaway, lieutenant ; Stephen Cooper, colonel ; H. H. Hughes, major ; G. H. Willis, captain : James H. Finks, major ; William Merick, major : II. Q. Martin, captain ; Robert II. Walden, Ist lieutenant; Thomas Turner, captain : William O. Keeble, 2d lieutenant ; Abe Hayter, lieutenant ; Joseph Richards, lieutenant ;
Sid. B. Cunningham, ensign ; C. D. Holtzclaw, captain ; William Holtzelaw, lieutenant ; Jack Cooper, captain ; John Cooper, lieutenant ;
Frank Hargis, sergeant ; Garris Allen, lientenant ; William Todd, captain ; Eugene Todd, lieutenant ; Thomas Todd, captain ; William B. Strode, captain ; Congrieve Jackson, colonel ; Calvin Sartin, lieutenant ; William F. Cunningham, captain ; William C. Boon, surgeon ; August Elgin, captain ; Tip. Elgin, lieutenant :
Benjamin Clark, lieutenant : Hays Farris, captain : James A. Walden, lieutenant ; L. B. Cooper, lieutenant ;
Layton Mansfield, lieutenant ; Virginia Leland, sergeant : Thomas Howard, captain ; James Chorn, captain ; Samuel Morrison, captain ; John M. Hickey, captain ;
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Joseph Green, captain ; B. M. MeCraig, captain ; John Robertson, lieutenant ; James Cason, captain :
Q. Cary, captain : George Stapleton, surgeon ; Dr. MeGirk, surgeon.
Privates.
C. B. Harris,
Thomas B. Brooks, Brack Brown, John Brown. William Brown, J. K. Moss, Silas Moser, Tip. Ditzler. G. Settle,
Enoch Crews, B. Seott, John Kile,
Nero Thompson,
George Craig,
D. W. Whitt,
John Phillips,
Caleb Thomas,
John D. Craven,
Z. Yates,
Given Johnson,
Thomas Farmer,
G. W. Knox,
Robert Hughes,
Clint Calaway,
A. McCraig.
Hardin Harris,
Mack. Wilcox,
John Holtzelaw.
Benjamin Holtzelaw.
James Holtzclaw,
Neriah Brashear,
William W. Hancock,
John Rosson,
Milton Elkin. John Moore,
John A. Walden,
Sarshall Cooper,
C. J. Walden, H. C. Tindall,
Charles Cunningham,
J. P. MeCraig, Ezekiel Harris,
N. B. Hughes,
Robert Ainsworth,
Parkinson Hocker, James Hocker, William Hocker, George Carson, Stephen Carson, James Todd, James Richards, William E. Walden, Barl. Harris, John Watkins,
John Thurman, William H. Hardin,
James Colvin. James Cooper, Walter Cooper.
H. N. Kivett,
Henry Wilkerson, James Ashcraft. C. S. Swearingen, Joseph Swearingen, John HI. Cooper,
F. G. Canole,
M. V. Sims,
Elijah Sims,
Benjamin Ray, James Ray, Captain Brooks, James Jordan, G. H. Jordan, Nick Jeter,
Wilton Robertson,
Robert Bobbitt,
Samuel Rav, Uriah Breashear, Alfred Gleary, Oliver Bailey, George Eaton, John Turner, E. W. Turner, William Wilkerson,
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A. J. Howard,
Thomas P. Newman,
Thomas Worden,
Coleman MeCraig, Richard Pearce,
John Peyton, John S. Elliott,
John Robertson, .
M. Cropp,
Austin Jones, Strother Jones,
Thomas Creson,
O. Brown,
James Creson,
A. Serip,
James Muir,
Townsend Wright,
George Kirby,
Patrick Woods,
George R. Kirby,
Henry Heberling,
David Wilson,
Turner Patterson,
Alfred Yeager,
Turner Williams,
Morris Owens,
Richard Enyard,
Joseph Cropp,
Brown Chancellor,
Thomas Grider,
William Hackley,
William Jones,
William Finney,
Simpson Nelson,
James Robertson,
James Linn,
Abner Nash,
Oliver Rose,
Thomas Shields,
John Embree,
Lafayette Marens,
William Kirby,
John Heberling.
John Krouse,
David Yeager,
John F. Tippett,
Patrick O'Mely,
James R. Hickerson,
Henry Ditzler,
Benjamin Cropp.
Abe Bobbitt,
John Hackley,
James Bobbitt,
Benjamin Ashbury,
John Garven,
John Finney,
W. B. Miller,
William Linn,
George Mnir,
Benjamin Embree,
Frank Kirby, J. M. Moore,
A. F. Yeager, James Wiley,
Press. Walls, Robert Smith,
Jason Smith,
Alexander Dudgeon, Logan Shipp,
James C. Heberling, J. P. Witt, ·
Joel Witt,
George Robb,
James Jackson, Claib. Carson,
William Boyd, Frank Dey,
William Shields, John A. Woods, George Heberling. Alfred Silvey, L. Silvey, Leroy Silvey, James Silvey, Joseph E. George, Dick Nichols, Joseph Jackson, John Cooper.
Thomas Gibson, Joshua Wisdom, Frank Anderson,
. George Hackley, Patrick Allen,
John D. Taylor,
Dick Childers, Shalen Ayers, Diek Jackson,
Joshua Lakey,
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Joseph Todd, Asa Smith, Harvey Liggett, Jasper Stapp, Milton Jackson,
Joseph Rasser, John Ridgway,
Len. Smith,
Thomas Embree,
Neriah Toda,
John Rosebury,
Barney Dudgeon, James Flemming,
F. M. Thorp, William R. Carson, Jesse Spence,
John Taylor, Mat. Stapp,
John Gowe, James Campbell,
H. B. Watts,
Barney Ballew,
John T. Markland,
William Rosser,
Charles Canole,
James Ridgway,
William Smith,
John Cloyd,
John Dudgeon,
William Rosebury, Ike Stanley,
Press. Smith, Ike Taylor,
Joseph Peacher, John Spence. Jolm Gothan,
William Stapp,
William Watts,
Samuel Rosser,
Martin Ballew,
Gus. Sears,
Benjamin Shipp,
James Grigsby,
Henry Wills,
W. W. Cloyd,
Riley Boon,
Thomas Warren,
Ed. Bowen, John Cavens,
George Chorn.
Peter Peacher,
Ed. Ramey, Dick Crews,
Emmet Spence,
George Carter,
Moses Ashbury,
Marion Forest,
William Harris,
Newton Swearingen,
Lewis Railey,
Ebenezer Rankin,
Asa Thompson,
William Markland,
Joseph Lakey,
Thomas Jordan,
Elliott Alsop,
John C. Heath,
James Landram,
Obadiah Swearingen.
Samuel Hackly,
Samuel Hardin,
John Thompson, Lewis Collier,
Ambrose Callaway, James Wilson, George B. Tolson, Strother MeDonald, William Carson, James Burrows, Joseph Boges,
Hiram Shipp, William Coleman,
Hamp. Boon,
Robert Tinsley,
Et. St. Clair, Luther Markland,
Newton Stapp,
Si. Todd,
George Fisher,
Thomas Croley,
Stephen Campbell, Bud. Watt>. Arch. Ballew,
Robert Shipp,
George Bobbitt, John Boon, Sock. Robertson, Dol. Minor,
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Theo. Stapleton,
John Wheeler,
Harvey Hughes,
W. B. MeKinly,
Charles Boulder,
James Glover,
Oscar Willis,
Achilles Carson,
James Raines,
Ike Garvin,
Owen Chorn,
William Burrows,
George Ramey,
H. 11. Boggs,
George Maupin,
George Whitlow,
Nick Ashbury,
Jule Massey,
Harvey Vivion,
Willis Mason,
Richard Fristol,
John Keyser.
Roland Fisher,
HOWARD COUNTY MILITIA.
The following are the names of the officers of the various militia companies of Howard county :
Boonsboro Township-W. A. Elkins, captain; G. A. Knox. first lieutenant ; W. R. Quinly, second lieutenant.
Franklin Township-Hugh W. Stewart, captain ; Charles Canole, first lieutenant ; N. Rollins, second lieutenant.
Moniteau Township -- George MI. Pipes, captain ; M. M. Basey, first lieutenant ; Zach. Crews, second lieutenant.
Bonne Femme Township- Platoon -J. N. Smith, first lieu- tenant.
Prairie Township- W. S. Lynch, captain ; W. A. Green, first lieutenant ; Thomas Montgomery, second lieutenant.
Chariton Township -June Williams, captain ; Martin Green, first lieutenant ; Peter Land, second lieutenant.
Richmond Township -James H. Feland, captain ; Joseph Peeler, first lieutenant ; William Shafroth, second lieutenant.
Colored Companies. - Richmond and part of Bonne Femme, - R. J. Patton, captain ; Woolman Gibson, first lieutenant ; A. M. 1 Fielding, second lieutenant.
Moniteau and part of Bonne Femme- No officers.
Franklin and part of Boonsboro - No officers.
Chariton - W. P. Etheridge, captain.
Prairie Platoon - John Quinn, first lieutenant.
COLORED RECRUITS.
The former owners of slaves, and their descendants in Howard county, may feel some interest in looking over the list of negroes who enlisted in the war of 1861. The list does not contain the names of all the slaves who entered the army from Howard county. The num-
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ber enrolled and in the service ( U. S. army) was 600: the whole number fit for military duty was 930. This was in 1864. One of the most remarkable facts connected with the history of those times - a fact showing the astonishing credulity of the people - was the belief that the institution of slavery would either remain intaet, or that the owners of slaves would be compensated for their loss. Notwithstand- ing the enrollment of negroes was going on in their very presence, where they could be seen drilling daily for service, they were bought and sold as though the existence of the " peculiar institution " had not been imperiled by the war. The sale of the following slaves took place as late as January, 1864 ; they were owned by Philip Robert- son's estate, and were sold at the court-house door in Fayette : -
Dick, aged 31 years, bought by David E. Hays, price $140. Bal- timore, aged 25, by David Dennis, $100. Elizabeth, aged 13, by Jos. Robb, $200. Caroline, aged 9, by A. J. Robertson, $174.50. William, aged 11, by by Hiram Robertson. $211. Susan, aged 6, by Win. Shields, $78.85. Kitt, aged 3, by Jno. Manion, $18.50.
COLORED RECRUITS FROM HOWARD COUNTY.
Cyrus, owned by Elizabeth Hughes.
Turner, owned by John Burton.
Squire, owned by Frank Williams.
George, owned by John H. Withers.
Sam, owned by Henry Knouse. John, owned by Joseph Hockersmith.
Lewis, owned by A. W. Morrison.
Ben, owned by A. W. Morrison.
Henry, owned by Narcissus Snoddy. Ollie, owned by Wesley Green. Cyrus, owned by Richard Earickson. Harrison, owned by Wesley Green.
Walter, owned by Roxanna B. Hern.
George, owned by Roxanna B. Ilern. Samuel, owned by L. T. Patrick. Henry, owned by Colonel John F. Williams.
William, owned by S. T. Crews.
Frederick, owned by Thos. C. Boggs.
Howard, owned by Thos. C. Boggs.
Toby, owned by John Kirby. Stephen, owned by Hampton Green. Polk, owned by Wesly Green. Oscar, owned by P. W. Hawley. James, owned by W. P. Hawley.
Baddies, owned by W. P. Hawley. Jacob, owned by P. W. Hawley.
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Edward, owned by J. R. Estill.
Joseph, owned by estate of Roland Hughes.
Frank, owned by Joe Swan Hughes. Martin, owned by J. H. Hughes. Andrew, owned by John Blakely. Lowry, owned by J. R. Estill. Olie, owned by J. R. Estill.
Dennis, owned by John Hickerson.
Ben, owned by Win. Wigham.
Robert, owned by James Ferguson.
Martin, owned by Thomas Knonse.
Jacob, owned by John Q. A. Bibb. Benton, owned by Ira C. Darby. William, owned by R. T. Prewitt. James, owned by B. Eddins. Andrew, owned by S. T. Crews.
Robert, owned by James P. Beck.
Lewis, owned by J. P. Morrison. William, owned by J. P. Morrison.
Martin, owned by J. W. A. Patterson.
Jackson, owned by L. D. Brown. Jackson, owned by J. W. A. Patterson. George, owned by Nancy Suell. Sanford, owned by Nancy Snell. William, owned by R. J. Payne. William, owned by I. S. Brooks. Booker, owned by Willoughby Williams.
James, owned by W. L. Reeves.
John, owned by estate of John A. Talbott. Jeff, owned by W. L. Reeves.
Richard, owned by Benj. Reeves. Samuel, owned by estate of J. Q. Hicks.
William, owned by Benj. Reeves.
Mack, owned by Willoughby Williams.
Solomon, owned by Dr. Thomas Dinwiddie. Merit, owned by Jeff Payne. Alexander, owned by Hiram Robertson.
John, owned by estate of David Johnson. Green, owned by John Embree. Reuben, owned by Mary Ann Cake.
Howard, owned by S. T. Crews.
Granderson, owned by Mary Withers.
Henry, owned by T. H. Richards. Jackson, owned by John Snoddy. Ben, owned by Sarah Barnes. Jackson, owned by estate of William Brown. Charles, owned by Ann Miller.
Lewis, owned by William Payne. Daniel, owned by estate of William Brown.
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George, owned by Susan Jackson. Sam, owned by James Means. Benton, owned by James Means. Willis, owned by Samuel Maddox. Lewis, owned by W. P. Jackson. Alfred, owned by Andrew Tolson. Bartlett, owned by Rice Patterson. William, owned by John R. White. Adam, owned by John R. White. Alfred, owned by John R. White. Sam, owned by John R. White. Andy, owned by John R. White. Preston, owned by John R. White. Jacob, owned by John R. White. Thomas, owned by W. B. Muir. Perry, owned by Ira C. Darby. Charles, owned by Gideon Wright. Shelby, owned by FederalWalker. Daniel, owned by Federal Walker. St. Andrew, owned by Federal Walker. Charles, owned by Gerard Robinson.
William, owned by Wade M. Jackson. James, owned by David Isaaes. Ben, owned by David Isaacs. Barny, owned by Mark Jackman.
Charles, owned by L. S. Eddins.
Thomas, owned by L. S. Eddins.
Judd, owned by L. S. Eddins. Oliver, owned by M. G. Maupin. Garland, owned by Ann Adams. Jim, owned by Bainer Spotts. Abraham, owned by estate of George P. Bass. Thomas, owned by Mrs. Sallie Patton.
Jim, owned by Archie Woods. Warren, owned by estate of A. Leonard.
Joseph, owned by A. Cooper.
Henry, owned by A. Cooper.
George, owned by A. Cooper.
Robert, owned by Luther Cooper.
Lunzen, owned by C. E. Givens. Isaae, owned by C. E. Givens.
Thomas, owned by Stephen Mott.
Edmon, owned by C. E. Givens. Jake, owned by estate of A. Leonard.
Anderson, owned by Jack Haden. John, owned by Archibald Hill.
David, owned by G. W. Stapleton. Harrison, owned by J. T. Carson. Charles, owned by Solomon Barnett.
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Antony, owned by George Harvey.
Ambrose, owned by G. F. Stapleton.
John. owned by Ira C. Darby. Amos, owned by James Perkins.
James, owned by G. W. Stapleton. Aaron, owned by Win. Long.
Jacob, owned by Mrs. J. Blythe.
Henry, owned by Moses Burton.
Adam, owned by estate of F. E. Williams.
Mack, owned by Eliza Stapleton.
Lee, owned by James Proctor.
Isaac, owned by estate of Wm. Elgin.
George, owned by Thomas Dinwiddie.
Allin, owned by estate of F. E. Williams.
Ambrose, owned by H. Dudgeon.
Pleasant, owned by Mrs. Sallie Patton.
Alex, owned by Jo Davis.
John, owned by Ben Reeves.
Charles, owned by J. H. Petty.
Sam, owned by B. W. Lewis.
William, owned by J. G. Long.
BATTLES AND INCIDENTS.
There were a few engagements, and one or two incidents that occurred in Howard county during the war, that we deem of sufficient importanee to be chronieled in this history. We copy from Major John N. Edwards' " Noted Guerillas."
ATTACK ON FAYETTE.
A long night march and a dark one, succeeded to the evening of the fight, but by sunrise the next morning Todd had formed a junetion with Quantrell, Poole, Anderson, Perkins and Thomas Todd. these two last being Confederate officers. Aggregated. the force mimbered 277 rank and file, not a formidable force to do effectively the important work General Price required of it. Poole commanded 52 men : George Todd. 53: Anderson, 67; Quantrell, 16: Thomas Todd, 42, and Perkins. 47. All eyes were now turned towards Faverte. the county seat of Howard county, eleven miles north of the ren- dezvous, where 400 Federal soldiers did garrison duty, strongly forti- fied and capable of stout resistance. The command was first offered to Quantrell, but he remised it, next to Anderson who accepted. Quantrell argued in the counsel against attacking Favette, and voted against it, as a piece of military folly. So did George Todd : but the balance overbore them and decided to make the venture.
On the morning of September 20. 1864, the march towards Fayette began. Anderson moved first, Poole next, Stuart next, and
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Quantrell fourth. In the rear were George Todd, Perkins and Thomas Todd. Fayette had a strong stockade on the north as a defensive work, and in the town itself both the court-house and a female academy were strongly fortified. Anderson, Poole, and Quantrell were to charge through Fayette and invest the stockade, while the two Todds and Perkins were to look after the buildings on the inside of the cor- poration. Tom Todd led the advance in the attack on the town, as Fayette was his home.
Fayette was reached about eleven o'clock and attacked furiously. Anderson, Poole, and Quantrell dashed through the square, losing some of their best men. and the two Todds and Perkins faced the two fortified buildings, and did what was possible to be done - bear breasts against brick and mortar. Sergeant MeMurtry, of George Todd's company, fell first and close to the court-house fence. Oll Thompson was mortally wounded, Perkins lost ten men in as many minutes, Tom Todd seven, and Poole eight. Anderson lost in killed, Garrett, Cravens, Agen, Grosvenor, and Newman Wade; and in wounded, Thomas Maupin, Silas King, William Stone and Lawrence Wilcox ; Lieutenant Little, one of the oldest of Quantrell's veteran's was badly wounded. Every attack was repulsed both upon the court- house and the stockade, and the guerrillas retreated finally, but un- pursued, with a loss of eighteen killed and forty-two wounded. Richard Kinney and Jesse James volunteered to bring MeMurtry out from under the guns of the enemy, and they dashed in afoot. and succeeded safely amid a shower of balls. Quantrell, infuriated at a loss of so many splendid fellows, fought with a recklessness unusual with him. Leading in person three desperate assaults upon the stockade, and wounded severely in the second assault, he would have commanded a fourth if Poole and Anderson, convinced at last of the uselessness of the sacrifice, had not shown the insanity of the effort and argued him out of his reckless purpose. Many feats of individ- ual and heroie daring were performed. Thomas Todd, his long red beard waving in the wind, and his black plume floating free where the fight was the hottest, dashed up once to the main gate of the court- house and emptied six chambers of a revolver into a door, from which twenty muskets were protruding. Peyton Long, losing his horse early in the fight, rushed desperately into a corral under cover of the stockade, coolly chose the horse which suited him best, mounted bim bareback and galloped away unhurt into his own ranks again. Harri- son Trow, procuring from a citizen an excellent shot-gun, crept to a sheltered place close to the academy and silenced one window of it by the accuracy and rapidity of his fire. He was so cool and so calm always in danger, that his comrades called him " leeberg." The night of the retreat, Oliver Johnson died. Only twenty-five years of age, he was six feet two in height, and large in proportion. Of im- mense physical strength, in a charge or elose hand to hand fight he was simply resistless. Wounded six times, the seventh wound killed him. To find one to fill his place, who could be braver, more deadly.
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or more constantly in the saddle, was to hunt for gold dust in a straw pile. There were none such.
The above account is correct in the main, but is wide of the truth in reference to the number of men that were stationed in Fayette. The garrison consisted of 300 men all told. On the day of the attack Major Reeves Leonard was out of town on a scouting expedition, and had with him 250 men, leaving 50 men in Fayette. but only 45 of these were able to bear arms. The Federals lost two men killed, and had one man wounded. One of the men killed, however, was not at the time a soldier. Had the guerrillas known at the time of the attack that there were only 45 effective men opposed to their number - 277 -- they would have probably made a more des- perate effort to have captured the garrison. One of the men killed by the guerrillas was scalped, and this trophy of the bloody deed was found pinned to a tree south of Fayette, with an inscription badly written and badly spelled, stating in substance, " This is the way we do business."
AFFAIR NEAR NEW FRANKLIN.
While Colonel S. D. Jackman was on his last recruiting expedi- tion in Howard county, in the spring of 1863, and while in the neighborhood of New Franklin, his company, consisting of about twenty men, was attacked by a detaelnment of Federals under Captain Samuel Steinmetz, from Glasgow. The guerrillas had taken a strong position in a ravine, and after pouring a single volley into Steinmetz's ranks, the latter scattered in every direction, and did not halt until they reached Fayette. Major Reeves Leonard, commander of the post at Fayette, and a member of Colonel Guitar's regiment, aroused at the signal failure of Steinmetz to break up Jackman's recruiting camp, hurried out himself at the head of sixty picked troopers. A combat ensued, brief but savage. Jackman and Leonard met face to face and fought a single-handed fight. Leonard was wounded severely in the leg. Jackman and his men retreated.
CASON'S ATTACK ON TWO STEAMBOATS.
On the 17th of August, 1861, the guerrilla, Captain Cason, ascer- tained that two steamboats, the White Cloud and the McDowell, were coming down the Missouri river en route to St. Louis. An ambuscade was immediately formed on the Howard county side. and almost opposite Saline city. Here the current of the river
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sweeps almost to the shore, which would of necessity bring them within rifle range of the concealed guerrillas. Unsuspicious of danger and crowded with human freight, the boat swept swiftly along .. A sudden flame leaped out from the bushes as though some hidden fire was there, and then on the crowded decks were terror, confusion, bleeding and dead men. For nearly an hour Cason fought the boats, making of every embankment and earthwork, and of every tree a fortress. Finally a landing was effected and two pieces of cannon hurried ashore, and used for shelling the timber that concealed the guerrillas. Cason held on. As the infantry advanced he fell back, as it retired he advanced. Night alone ended the savage duel, the Federal loss being about sixty-two killed and more than that number wounded. The guerrillas lost no men.
AN ACT OF BRUTALITY.
The following seems to illustrate the villainous and brutal char- acter of that inhuman butcher, who reveled in the blood and sufferings of his unfortunate victims : --
[From Colonel Switzler's History of Missouri.]
After the abandonment of Glasgow, the guerrilla chief. Bill Anderson, and his band of outlaws, came at night to the house of William B. Lewis, in the vicinity, and in the presence of his family and of Mrs. Clark, mother of the rebel general, John B. Clark, Jr., and Mr. Dabney Garth, brother-in-law of Sterling Price, both con- nected by marriage to Mr. Lewis, subjected their victim to the grossest and cruelest indignities. He was knocked down with the butts of heavy pistols, bruised and battered while helpless on the floor, his clothes eut open, his flesh pricked with knives, and his body singed with the flash of pistols fired within a few inches of his face. In their savage cruelty, the villains stuck the muzzles of their pistols into the mouth of their unresisting victim, and threatened to blow out his brains, accompanying their threats with ribald oaths and impreca- tions. All this was done partly to wreak their fury on a Union man, and partly to extort money from him. Mr. Lewis, who was a wealthy citizen, gave his tormentors $1,000, which was all the money he had in the house, and was then permitted to go in the streets under guard, and borrow as much more as he could from his neighbors. Anderson demanded $5,000 for his ransom, and this sum by the active aid of neighbors and personal friends he was enabled to raise. It was paid over to his greedy persecutors, and he was released. Next day he escaped from the town, together with several other citizens, and made his way to Boonville.
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CAPTURE OF GENERAL THOMAS J. BARTHOLOW.
We clip from the Howard county Advertiser, of April 30, 1863: -
On Wednesday night last, Brigadier-general T. J. Bartholow, com- manding the eighth military district of Missouri, was taken from bed at Glasgow, Missouri, by Jackman's guerrillas, and was not heard from till yesterday. There was a company of enrolled militia in the town, but the general. having recently lost by death his wife and mother, was staying for the night ( Wednesday ) at his mother's late residence, situated on the outskirts of town. During the night the guerillas entered and carried him away. Yesterday, however, Gen- eral Gray received the following dispatch from General Bartholow :
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