The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 41, In Four Parts. Part 1, Reports. Page: 652
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6.52
LOUISIANA AND THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI.
My thanks are earnestly due to all my officers and men for their
courage and devotion and their eagerness at all times to meet the
enemy.
Hoping this report will prove satisfactory, I am, colonel, very re-
spectfully,
JO. O. SHELBY,
Brigadier- General, Commanding Expedition.
Maj. L. A. MACLEAN,
Assistant Adjutant-General, Army of Arkansas.
HEADQUARTERS SHELBY'S DIVISION,
December -, 1864.
COLONEL: I have the honor to make the following report, embracing
a, detailed account of my operations in Missouri during the recent expe-
dition of General Price:
On the 12th of September I moved camp from Sulphur Rock, Ark.,
toward Pocahontas in anticipation.of the arrival of the army, and on the
19th, after having received my instructions, started for Missouri, and
' encamped in Doiiphan. Before arriving there, however, couriers from
Lieutenant-Colonel Johnson, of Marmaduke's command, brought infor-
mation that 100 Federals were in the town and pressing him back. I
'immediately started forward sufficient re-enforcements, but the enemy
led before reaching them, burning the helpless and ill-fated town. That
night I dispatched 150 men under Lieutenant-Colonel Johnson to pursue
the vandals: They came upon them early the next morning [20th],
. attacked, scattered, and killed many of them. I pushed on then rap-
idly for Patterson, destroying on the way the bloody rendezvous of
the notorious Leeper, and on the morning of the 22d I surrounded
and charged in upon the town. Its garrison, hearing of my advance,
retreated hastily, but not before many were captured and killed, and
some supplies taken. All the Government portion of Patterson was
Destroyed, together with its strong alid ugly fort.
:i By a long and forced march the next day Fredericktown was reached
to prevent, if possible, the removal of the goods there; but the news had
outstripped our fastest horses, and nothing was left but the shadow.
A scouting party from my command, under Captains Johnson and
Shaw, dashed into Farmington, surrounded a strong court-house held
by thirty Federals, and captured them, with great quantities of goods.
Remaining three days at Fredericktown, I started early on the morn-
ing of the 26th for the Iron Mountain Railroad., the heavy clouds over-
head dark and portentous with impending destruction, and encamped
five miles from the doomed track, the whistle of the familiar locomo-
tives sounding merrily and shrill on the air as if no enemy were watch-
ing and waiting for the coining daylight.
Early in the dim morning Col. Benjamin Elliott was sent to Irndale
to .destroy the bridge there, and Col. B. Frank Gordon to the three
bridges over Big River, below, while with the rest of the command I
struck the road equidistant between the two points. As my advance
came in sight a locomotive thundered by with one car attached loaded
with soldiers fleeing from the wrath to come, which was immediately
fired upon. Some slight obstructions had been placed upon the track
by the advanced scouts, which delayed the train a few moments, but
before any force could possibly have been brought up the locomotive
.went fleeing on, urged by hands that feared the avengers of blood.[CHAP. LIII.
; .
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