Mobile Register

July 6, 1861

The War in Missouri

The Progress of Events as Reported from the Enemy’s Side

[Dispatches to the Associated Press]

            ST. LOUIS, June 29—The Columbia (Mo.) Statesman announces on the authority of a gentleman from Newton county, that there are 30,000 stands of arms and six or seven thousand troops t Marysville, Arkansas.

            W. B. Stark, superintendent of the public schools, J. W. Houghton, superintendent Board Public Works, and Wm. E. Dunscombe, clerk of the Supreme Court, took the oath of allegiance to the united States, at Jefferson City, to-day.

            ST. LOUIS, June 30—Nine men, ten kegs of powder, and a small quantity of arms, were captured by a company of Federal troops, near Chillicothe, on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, night before last.  These men meditated the destruction of the railroad bridge in that vicinity, but their design was frustrated.  They are now held prisoners.

            Reliable information from Springfield says the Third Regiment, Col. Siegel, and part of the Fifth Regiment, Col. Solomon, reached there Sunday last, and Col. Browne’s Regiment, from the Reserve Corps and a battalion of the Fifth Regiment would arrive the next day.  Siegel’s Regiment started west to cut off Jackson who was last heard from at Stockton with 2,000 men, only partially armed.  It is understood that the Kansas Regiment has guarded all the outlets from Missouri and Kansas and the Indian territory, which, with Siegel’s outposts who went from Springfield, will entirely hem Jackson in and doubtless result if the capture of his whole force.

            J. P. Knott, the Attorney General of Missouri, is now in prison at the Arsenal.

            The Democrat’s correspondence says that the Union Home Guards at the battle at Cole Camp, on the 19th inst., lost 20 killed and wounded, and 23 were taken prisoners.  The prisoners were taken to Warsaw and liberated on taking oath not to bear arms against the Southern Confederacy.  The Union force was 500, and the Secessionists had 100 mounted men and 200 infantry.  The secession loss is reported at 32.

            INDEPENDENCE, MO., July 1—It is reported that the State troops, 10,000 in number, have crossed the Marias de Cygnes, 100 miles south of this place, and intend making a stand.

            The Federal forces, 2,600 or 3,000 in number, were 20 miles in their rear, waiting for reinforcements.

 

[Transcribed by Sharon Strout]