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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 70 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 23 13 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 19 19 Browse Search
An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps. 12 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6 6 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 6 6 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: September 28, 1861., [Electronic resource] 5 5 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 4 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 4 4 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: October 8, 1861., [Electronic resource] 3 3 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The first year of the War in Missouri. (search)
represented. General Price had meanwhile gone to Lexington, where several thousand militia had assembled. the rich and friendly counties in the vicinity of Lexington till the Confederacy could send an army to his sup. Rains to take command of the militia at and near Lexington, and to move southward so as to effect a junction f engagements of this first year,--Wilson's Creek, Lexington, and Pea Ridge,--see the papers by Generals Pearcer side was trifling. Price now hastened toward Lexington, joined at every step by recruits. Reaching the c that had been taken by the enemy from the Bank at Lexington, and restored it to the Bank. His force. amounteal Price sent me to Richmond, after the capture of Lexington, as a special commissioner to explain to Presidentarly caps for the muskets which we had captured at Lexington. To all my entreaties McCulloch replied that Pricthen make straight for New Orleans. Price left Lexington on the 29th of September, after advising his unarm
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Arkansas troops in the battle of Wilson's Creek. (search)
until the beginning of General Price's march upon Lexington, on the 25th of August. A few days after the battthe State which followed, including the capture of Lexington, were conducted with Missouri troops alone. At ththe four Federal posts, Jefferson City, Boonville, Lexington, and Kansas City, Lexington was the easiest and moLexington was the easiest and most important one to take. General Price left Springfield on the 25th of August, dispersed Lane's forces at Dry at daybreak, September 1Oth; Peabody getting into Lexington first, Price, after a little skirmishing with Mulligan's outpost, bivouacked within 212 miles of Lexington. In the morning (12th) Mulligan sent out a small forcp in the afternoon, and Price then advanced toward Lexington, and drove Mulligan behind his defenses. There wahrough which Price advanced, and in the streets of Lexington, where he opened upon Mulligan with 7 pieces of artillery. Price's movement into Lexington in the afternoon of September 12th was only a reconnoissance in force
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., chapter 8.25 (search)
The siege of Lexington, Mo. Reprinted, with revision, from newspaper reports of a lecture by C forces, cut my way through the enemy, go to Lexington, and hold it at all hazards. The next moThe trouble was not so much the getting into Lexington as the getting out. At Lexington we found CoLexington we found Colonel Marshall's cavalry regiment and about 350 of a regiment of Home Guards. On the 10th of Septents on College Hill, an eminence overlooking Lexington and the broad Missouri. All day long the mefor each of our six-pounders. Siege of Lexington, Mo. Captain Joseph A. Wilson, of Lexington,overwhelm us, and bury us in the trenches of Lexington. At noon, word was brought that the enemwork which, in its treatment of the siege of Lexington, exhibits impartiality and a painstaking resumstances of the surrender: The surrender of Lexington was negotiated on the part of Colonel Mulligf their fund. At the time of the capture of Lexington the State Convention of Missouri had deposed[7 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The Pea Ridge campaign. (search)
of August, forever memorable by the heroic death of General Lyon. The retreat of our little army of about 4500 men to Rolla, after that battle, ended the first campaign and gave General Sterling Price, the military leader of the secessionist Uniform of the United States regulars in 1861. forces of Missouri, the opportunity of taking possession of Springfield, the largest city and central point of south-west Missouri, and of advancing with a promiscuous host of over 15,000 men as far as Lexington, on the Missouri River, which was gallantly defended for three days by Colonel Mulligan. Meanwhile, General Fremont, who on the 25th of July had been placed in command of the Western Department, had organized and put in motion an army of about 30,000 men, with 86 pieces of artillery, to cut off Price's forces, but had only succeeded in surprising and severely defeating about a thousand recruits of Price's retiring army at Springfield by a bold movement of 250 horsemen (Fremont's body-guar