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The bounty warrants having been drawn and distributed among the vol- unteers at the time of their enlistment, and a tax levied to pay the same, the County Court ordered the funds collected to be paid on the warrants, pro rata, in December, 1865, there not being enough to pay the warrants in full.
January 1, 1866, each member of Captain Morris's, company, which had been raised as the home company, were given one of the pistols purchased by the county on their giving a receipt to the county agent for the same.
SKIRMISHES IN JACKSON TOWNSHIP.
At the time of the raid on Lindley, Grundy county, --- , 1864, there was considerable excitement in the western part of the county. The raiders were Holtzclaw's men, from Chariton county. Joe Gooch, Jim Jackson, and Howard Bragg were along. On the retreat from Lindley a large force of militia swarmed in the rear of the bushwhackers and gave them no little trouble. Holtzclaw stopped at a farmer's house in Jackson township and ordered dinner for himself and men. Before the meal could be cooked and eaten the militia were upon the bushwhackers and drove them away.
Over in the Muddy Creek timber Holtzclaw dismounted his men to rest themselves and their jaded horses awhile and contrive to thwart his angry pursuers who were growing stronger and pressing closer every minute. Holtzclaw stationed Joe Gooch and Jim Jackson on the road, with instruc- tions to draw the militia into a trap or ambush. The bushwhackers num-
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bered less than twenty-five men; the militia probably one hundred and fifty. Holtzclaw placed his men in a line behind trees, with the design of drawing the Federals into the woods and subjecting them to a fire from his pistols, the most unerring and deadly. Jim Jackson stood up on his horse's back, like a circus rider, and peered over a hill into a valley below. Turning to Gooch he said: "There they come, d -- n them; a thousand of them." The two men then took position, and when the advance of the militia cleared the brow of the hill, opened fire from their dragoon revolvers. Two or three militiamen tumbled from their saddles, and their comrades halted, and forming across the road, opened fire with their muskets upon the brace of daring riders, around whose ears the minie. balls buzzed like a swarm of angry hornets. Away galloped Jackson and Gooch into the timber where the remainder of the bushwhackers were lying, hoping and expecting the militia would follow. Bat on reaching the timber the wily Federals di- vided their forces. One column started around the timber in one direction, and the other took the opposite direction, intending to include the bush- whackers within the two jaws of a trap, which should soon be sprung. There was nothing left then for Holtzclaw but to ride rapidly away from his danger, and when the trap came together a few minutes later there was nothing in it.
Holtzclaw rode on down into Clay township, and having been deprived of his dinner, determined to have a supper even if he had to resort to a ruse. Joe Gooch was selected to open negotiations for a. square meal, of which the whole party stood so much in need. Riding up to the house of a prominent and well-to-do Union man, the graceless scamp accosted him, and asked if he and his men could get supper and their horses fed. "We are after bushwhackers," explained Joe; " I suppose you know they are in the country!" The farmer said he had not heard of their presence, "Oh, yes!" returned Joe, " they made a raid on Lindley this morning, robbed the town of several thousand dollars, and have made their way down into Jack- son township. We are fixing up a trap to catch them in the Parson Creek timber to-night. I and my men have ridden far and hard to-day and have much work yet to do before we sleep."
The loyal old farmer answered that under the circumstances the best he had was at the service of the brave militiamen, and straightway set his family at work to prepare a bountiful repast for the men, and opened his cribs and barns to feed their horses. After faring sumptuously, and wast- ing an hour or so in riotous living, the bushwhackers rode away to their lair in Chariton county, leaving their host as unsuspicious of their true character at the last as at the first. The loyal old citizen of Clay was not the only man who entertained bushwhackers unawares during the civil war.
The raid on Lindley, the surviving participants on the side of the bush-
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whackers say, was made in retaliation for the harrassing and raiding on Jackson township by a Grundy county militia company, the members of which lived in and around Lindley. After the war a citizen of Lindley ob- tained judgment in the courts against Howard Bragg and Joe Gooch, two of Holtzclaw's men, for $1,800, the amount which he alleged was taken. from him during the raid.
THE BEGINNING OF THE END.
In January, 1865, it was plain that the days of the Southern Confederacy were numbered, and that the end of the civil war was at hand. The bush- whackers were still in the field and January ninth raided Linneus, killing Judge Smith and Mr. Pendleton. By a foolish order of General Loan the people had been stripped of their arms and were at the mercy of any band of freebooters that might choose to come upon them.
After the Linneus raid the Seventeenth Illinois Cavalry was sent into Linn county to "protect" (?) the people. The men of this regiment were a most precious lot of scoundrels that did little else during their term of ser- vice but steal, rob, and plunder. They were great cowards and would not fight. During the Price raid when Major Mullins, of Linn, with the gal- lant First Missouri State Militia, was holding back the Confederate advance at the Osage River, the Seventeenth Illinois Cavalry was within reach and in a position to do some good, but the men could not be induced to make anything like a creditable fight, and allowed their comrades to be beaten back. The colonel of the Seventeenth Illinois, Beveridge, was afterward governor of his State.
No wonder the people of Linn prayed to be delivered from their "friends" . if the Seventeenth were considered their friends. The soldiers robbed and stole and marauded generally until the entire population heartily detested them, and they were at last moved away.
In the early spring the soldiers began to arrive at their home in Linn, and kept on coming until in the next year. The Confederates dropped in ' from time to time, the bushwhackers remaining away for some time, some of them indefinitely. There was some bad blood between the partisans of each faction for a time. Each side imagined they had wrongs that ought to be redressed, injuries that ought to be avenged, and there were many threats and considerable fear.
JUST BEFORE THE COLLAPSE.
It was April 3, 1865, just before the collapse of the Southern Confeder- acy, that the following order of the County Court was placed on record; to- wit,
" It is ordered by the court that a sufficient amount of money be bor- rowed by Linn county out of the different county school funds of the county,
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to arm a company of seventy mnen with one Spencer rifle and two re- volvers each, one thousand dollars to be paid down and the balance in ninety days. R. G. Waters and T. T. Easley are hereby appointed agents to pro- cure such arins and do hereby ratify whatever they shall do concerning the premises."
Having secured these arms, as is supposed, the next thing was to take care of them. This disposition of the school funds was not teaching the young ideas "how to shoot" but was giving a few adults a glorious chance to have some fun in hunting game while defending the portals of Linn county from its foes, real or imaginary. As the company wasn't formed the court de- cided in placing these arms in the care of an agent, to hold fast thereto until said company was formed, and to carry out this programme issued the following:
"It is ordered by the court that the arms purchased by the county for its defense be brought to the county seat and delivered to Capt. R. G. Waters as ordnance officer for the county, who shall take charge of said arms, and issue them and take a recept of the commanding officer of a company to be raised and recruited, when said company shall have eighty-three men and are duly mustered into the State service and the commanding officer duly commissioned and mustered, and that Capt. R. G. Waters be notified of this order."
As the Confederacy of the South about a week after gave up the ghost at Appomattox, Captain Waters probably failed to issue said arms.
THE END COMES.
At last Lee surrendered at Appomattox; Joe Johnson to Sherman, near Raleigh; Hood and Dick Taylor to Canby; Kirby Smith to Pope. Then it was not long until every man who had worn the gray had lain down his arms, and was at home, save the outlawed guerrillas, and the men who went off to Mexico with Shelby and Price. The great black and bloody war be- tween citizens of a common country, waged to please unscrupulous politi- cians, was over, with all its horrors and calamities, with all of its blights and curses.
PEACE.
The war cloud had passed, but it had left a trail red with the blood of the sons of feedom; yet had peace come, and the land so lately rended by strife and raging hosts of armed men, now lay quiet, bathing in the soft sunlight of a spring day, and hope, the white-winged messenger of despairing hearts, came in silent gladness to the people once more. The Blue and the Gray had met in mortal strife; they now meet as brothers. Let us hope that the future of our country may never again be in the throes of a fratricidal strife, and that peace and brotherly love may be upon the banner of those
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who shall now and in all future time guide the destinies of this great re- public. Strong, solid, and as enduring as the rock of ages, its principles founded upon the rights of the people for self-government, holding out its hands in welcome to the oppressed of all nations, the "Blue and Gray" unite once more in bonds of fraternal union, and standing side by side will ever guard the portals of liberty from all fões.
LINN COUNTY'S SOLDIERS IN THE CIVIL WAR.
The publishers of this volume have made great effort to obtain the name of every soldier who fought on either side during the civil war, but in a measure have failed. Advertisements were inserted in all the county papers, requesting copies of muster-rolls, names of soldiers, etc., but there was no general response. The companies from this county in the Forty- second Missouri Infantry, were not reported, as were not some militia com- panies on the Federal side. On the Confederate side there were not re- turned, Martin Hamilton's squad, John Walkup's recruits, and George Barnes's. The publishers would have gladly given the name of every man who wore either the blue or the gray, but were unable to get the desired information.
The soldiers of Linn county who served faithfully in the civil war against each other are now living amicably and harmoniously together. The poli- ticians may rant and cave, but these men are brothers once more, and noth- ing can induce them to rekindle the fires of animosity and the flames of hate.
On the thirtieth of May, 1866, the women of Columbus, Mississippi, deco- rated the graves in the military cemetery at that place. No distinction was made in the graves of Federals or Confederates, but all were alike strewn with flowers by the gentle-hearted women who, wiser than many of their breth- ren, allowed their prejudices to die at the tomb. The beautiful incident came to the knowledge of an officer of the Federal service, Lieut. F. M. Finch, who composed the following beautiful poem:
THE BLUE AND THE GRAY.
By the flow of the inland river, Whence the fleets of iron had fled, Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver, Asleep are the ranks of the dead; Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; Under the one, the Blue; Under the other, the Gray.
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Those in the robing of glory. These in the gloom of defeat, All with the battle blood gory, In the dusk of eternity meet; Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; Under the laurel, the Blue; Under the willow, the Gray.
From the silence of sorrowful hours The desolate mourners go, Lovingly laden with flowers, Alike for the friend and the foe; Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; Under the roses, the Blue; Under the lilies, the Gray.
So with an equal splendor, The morning sun-rays fall; With a touch impatiently tender, On the blossoms blooming for all; Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; Broidered with gold, the Blue; Mellowed with gold, the Gray.
So when the summer calleth, On forest and field of grain, With an equal murmur falleth, The cooling drip of the rain; Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; Wet with rain, the Blue, Wet with rain, the Gray.
Sadly, but not with upbraiding, The generous deed was done; In the storm of years now fading, No braver battle was won; Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; Under the blossoms, the Blue; Under the garlands, the Gray.
No more shall the war-cry sever, Or the winding river be red; They banish our anger forever, When they laurel the graves of our dead. Under the sod and the dew. Waiting the judgment day; Love and tears for the Blue; Tears and love for the Gray.
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COMPANY "F," FIRST CAVALRY MISSOURI STATE MILITIA.
H. Wilkinson, captain; date of commission, March 25, 1862; rank from March 12, 1862; post-office, Linneus, Missouri; resigned, February 14, 1863.
James B. Moore, captain; date of commission, February 27, 1863; rank from February 24, 1863; post-office, Linneus, Missouri; mustered out at expiration of term, March, 1865.
John D. Mullins, first lieutenant; date of commission, March 25,"1862; rank from March 21, 1862; post-office, Linneus, Missouri; killed on Price's raid, October 23, 1864.
D. C. Woodruff, second lieutenant; date of commission, March 25,1862; rank from March 12, 1862; post-office, Linneus, Missouri; mustered out at expiration of term, March 11, 1865.
PRIVATES AND NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Alexander Mullins.
Stanley. Arthur Robinson.
John Couch.
Lark Pendleton.
Samuel Powell.
George W. Pendleton.
Fielding Wills.
Frank Pendleton.
Marcellus Ware.
Sidney S. Nichols.
James Holland.
George W. Nichols.
John Norvell.
Durham Beckett.
Barney Wells.
John Beckett.
Edward Wells.
William Beckett.
James Reed, senior.
Harrison Hatfield.
James Reed, junior.
Thomas Fane.
William R. Meyers.
Henry Dodd.
Richard Lewis.
Daniel Grant.
Daniel Bruce.
Thomas Lambert.
B. F. Stone.
John Lane.
Frank Stone.
John N. Brinkley.
Lot Lantz.
Robert Fore:
George W. Lavey.
Benton Turner.
David Talley. Jones.
George W. Murrain.
Joshua Palmer.
Joseph Clubbs.
Elihu Palmer.
Samuel Stokers.
John H. Havens.
Jere Hooper.
Thomas Stevenson.
Wilson Moore. John Moore.
Frank Niles.
Deck. Pollard.
John Sandusky.
Joseph Markham. Dell Sperlin.
Samuel Duffield.
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. Alexander Clevenger. John Hurlbut. James Murrain. Joseph Hurlburt.
John Turner.
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The following members of this company were killed in action: John Couch, killed by cannon ball near Westport, Missouri, October 23, 1864, time of Price's raid. The same shot killed another, whose name has been forgotten. Lieutenant John D. Mullins was killed in the same engagement. Samuel Stokes, Arthur Robinson, and Samuel Powell were killed south of the Missouri River in bushwhacker skirmishes.
George W. Murrain died of disease soon after enlistment, and Lot Lantz, the old pioneer of Benton township was wounded at Panther Creek, Macon county, in a fight with Joe Porter's men, August 8, 1862.
This company made a clean record and did some very effective service in the State during hostilities, especially against bushwhackers and the raids made by Price and Shelby. Among many other adventures experienced by the company the following is narrated.
In the summer of 1864 a detachment of this company under Lieut. D. C. Woodruff, numbering twenty-five men in all, were stationed at Arrow Rock, in Saline county, for the purpose of protecting Union citizens of that section from abuses by Confederate guerillas. The isolation of the town, and the fewness in numbers of the force under Woodruff, were two consid- erations that made the bait too tempting for the bushwhackers to' resist. Accordingly, one pleasant evening, when all was serene in nature, the guer- rilla chieftains, George Todd, and Dick Yeager, with others of their well- known followers, accompanied by about a hundred men, paid their compli- ments to Lieutenant Woodruff. They were piloted into the town by a lad named Thomas M. Horne, who was out cow-hunting, and whom the rebels captured one-half mile from Arrow Rock. The raid occurred just at dusk of evening, and had the "Rebs" not mistaken the building in which the "Feds " were quartered, it would have been " bad for the boys." As it was, they set fire to the wrong building-or rather to the right one to allow the 'escape of the militia, and the latter, after darkness had set in, took the old ferry road, and escaped on foot to Glasgow, to which they; safely crossed at daylight next mornig. Yeager was wounded in the fight, and before recov- ery was found and killed. Woodruff and his men lost only their horses and part of their accouterments.
No pretense is made that the foregoing is anything like a full and correct list of the men or a perfect record of the services of the company; but the compiler has done the best he could with the information at his command, which information was obtained only after the remainder of the Linn county war history had gone to press.
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FEDERAL OR UNION SOLDIERS' RECORD.
COMPANY F, TWENTY-THIRD MISSOURI INFANTRY-ORIGINAL ORGANIZATION.
Captain, Thomas Carter.
First lieutenant, Thomas E. Braw-
ner.
Second lieutenant, N. Judson Camp.
First sergeant, Rice Morris.
Second sergeant, Elisha Jones.
Third sergeant, William F. [Rey- nolds.
Fourth sergeant, William J. Furbee.
Fifth sergeant, Francis M. Jones. First corporal, Robert F. Oxley. Second corporal, George Nichols. Third corporal, William Hooker. Fourth corporal, Thomas B. Reid. Fifth corporal, James W. Gooch. Sixth corporal, William Hawkins. Seventh corporal, Robert B. Smith.
Eighth corporal, David C. Pierce.
PRIVATES.
Grandison W. Burt.
John Mize.
James J. Bailey.
Charles J. McKay.
William Buchanan.
Richard M. Ogle.
John Cotter.
William Ogle.
William Ellison Cotter.
George W. Oxley.
Andrew J. Cotter.
Wharton B. Philbert.
Henry Carter. .
William S. P. Parker.
John Carter.
James G. Pollard.
Thornton T. Easley.
James Reid, Jr.
John J. Fitzgerald.
Hiram A. Sisson.
William H. C. Gooch.
William Smith.
. James W. Hayse.
Robert W. Stephenson.
James T. Hooker.
John Turner.
William Henderson.
William B. Turner.
James E. Hudson. .
William M. Hurlburt.
John T. Jones.
Enos H. Hurlburt.
William H. Jones.
Joseph O. Hurlbut.
William H. Kyer.
The above all enlisted at Linneus, August 26, 1861.
COMPANY F, TWENTY-THIRD MISSOURI INFANTRY (REORGANIZATION).
This company left St. Louis on the first of April, 1862, and arrived at Pittsburg, Tennessee, on the fourth of April (passage made by steamer Planet ). They were ordered on shore on the evening of the fifth, and on the morning of the sixth ordered out to the sixth division, commanded by General Prentiss. Before arriving at their position on the outposts,
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they were called into action, in which they held their position from 10 A. M. till 4 P. M. At that hour the regiment was cut off, and most of them captured. Company F lost in this engagement nearly all their equip- ments. The following was the roster of the company at the beginning of the battle:
Captain, Rice Morris.
First lieutenant, Thomas E. Braw- ner.
Second lieutenant, N. Judson Camp.
First sergeant, William Hooker. Second sergeant, William F. Rey- nolds.
Third sergeant, William J. Fur- bee.
Fourth sergeant, Francis M. Jones. Fifth sergeant, James G. Pollard. First corporal, Robert F. Oxley.
Second corporal, William Hawk- ins.
Third corporal, Richard M. Ogle. Fourth corporal, Elisha Jones.
Fifth corporal, John Carter. Sixth corporal, John W. Chapman. Seventh corporal, Grandison W. Burt.
Eighth corporal, James Parish.
Musician, Hiram A. Sisson.
Musician, Joseph O. Hurlbut.
Wagoner, Levi Cook.
PRIVATES.
John G. Anderson.
Jasper Hoskins. Sidney C. Hoskins.
Garret N. Anderson.
Irwin Auberry.
John Hooker.
Thomas Auberry.
John T. Jones.
Otto Becker.
William H. Kiger.
Wiliam Brown.
Salathiel P. Kiger.
William E. Buchanan.
Francis M. Kiger.
Alexander Ballenger. Henry Carter.
Charles J. McKay. John McCanon:
Thomas Carter.
Joshua Mccullough.
Daniel S. Conch.
Francis M. Mckay.
Andrew J. Cotter. John Cotter. Sidney Carter.
B. M. Maxey. Henry C. Moore.
William H. Moore.
William I. Cotter.
Moses R. F. Nickell.
William Cassity.
William Ogle.
Wharton B. Philbert.
Jacob Cassity. Richard W. Crump. William M. Cotter. George Cotter. William E. Cotter.
William H. Parkey. Henry C. Peery. Joseph A. Peery.
James M. Peery.
Richard Crump. William A. Cotter.
Lewis Phillips.
Benjamin F. Price.
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William M. Cotter Jr.
Isaac Cassity.
John Phelps. Richard C. Rynex.
William Couch.
Abraham Ross.
George Davis.
John Sparkes.
Samuel Dodson.
William Smith.
Vincent Dodge.
Claton Simmons.
John J. Fitzgerald.
John J. Simmons.
William E. Farley.
Jacob B. Stone.
William H. C. Gooch.
David C. Stone.
James W. Gooch.
Robert W. Stephens.
Thomas Gooch.
Jonathan Tipton.
William A. Henderson.
James C. Thompson.
James T. Hooker.
W. Vanbiber.
John Hayse.
John Welch.
Enos H. Hurlbut.
Martin B. Wright.
James W. Hayse.
George B. Whittenberg.
James Hanley (died at Linneus).
Isaac Welker.
CASUALTIES IN THE COMPANY AT THE BATTLE OF PITTSBURG LANDING, OR SHILOH.
Killed-First Sergeant William Hooker, Fifth Sergeant James Pollard, First Corporal James Parish, and privates James W. Hays and John Mc- Canon.
Prisoners-First Lieutenant Thomas E. Brawner, Second Sergeant Wil- liam F. Reynolds, corporals Elisha Jones and Grandison W. Burt, Musi- cian Hiram A. Sisson, privates John G. Anderson, Garret N. Ander- son, Thomas Auberry, William Brown, William E. Buchanan, Dan- iel S. Couch, Andrew J. Cotter, Sidney Cotter, Richard W. Crump, William E. Cotter, William M. Cotter Jr., Isaac Cassity, Vincent Dodge, George Davis, John J. Fitzgerald, James W. Gooch, Enos H. Hurlbut, Jasper Hoskins, John Hooker, Charles J. Mckay, B. M. Maxey, William H. Moore, William Ogle, Wharton B. Philbert, William H. Parkey, James W. Peery, Henry C. Peery, Lewis Phillips, John Phillips, Abraham Ross, William Smith, David C. Stone, James C. Thompson, V. Vanbiber, John Welch, Martin B. Wright, and Isaac Welker.
COMPANY I, TWENTY-THIRD MISSOURI INFANTRY.
Captain, Marion Cave.
Spencer. A. Wilbarger
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PRIVATES AND NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Caton Ashby.
Abraham Hickam.
Samuel Bigger.
John Kennedy.
F. M. Boles.
W. J. Kennedy.
James Drue.
Joshua Lovett.
Thomas Ferguson.
Alexander Lovett.
Solomon Hatfield.
Russ Martin.
Alfred Hatfield.
S. K. Rawlins.
John Howe.
Joseph Servait.
Daniel Hoskins.
B. F. Murrain.
HISTORICAL MEMORANDA OF THE TWENTY-THIRD MISSOURI.
(From the Adjutant-general's Report for 1865.)
Recruiting for this regiment commenced as early as July, 1861, under the direction of Jacob T. Tindall, of Grundy county, (then a member of the convention,) and Judge Smith, of Linn.
At the time these gentlemen commenced recruiting, they had but little prospect of success; they had no large bounties to offer, no assurance of pay to their men, no clothing, and their commissary department was sup- plied with little besides corn meal and bacon, gathered, in many cases, from the farmers. Indeed the rebellion, at that time, had overshadowed Mis- souri, and no cheering ray of light from the general government gave promise to the people of this section that they should have assistance in their efforts to overcome the almost boundless power acquired by the rebels.
The men who enlisted in the Twenty-third were principally farmers, and many of them owners of land, in the counties of Grundy, Livingston, Linn, Putnam, Mercer, Harrison, Daviess, and Carroll.
In August, 1861, Jacob T. Tindall succeeded in getting authority from Major-General Fremont, then commanding the Department of the West, to raise a regiment of Missouri volunteers, to serve for three years or dur- ing the war, unless sooner discharged. Soon after he had received the de- sired authority he did, with the utmost dispatch, rendezvous all the men who had been recruited for his regiment, and had men enough to form seven companies by the first of September, 1861, at which time he was ordered to Benton Barracks, with his command, where the ineu were mus- tered into the service of the United States, clothed, armed, and equipped, and put on duty in the city of St. Louis, where they remained until the fifteenth of October, 1861.
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