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THE WAR IN MISSOURI 57
long time in undisputed possession of southwest
Missouri, where we had but little to do for three
months but gather forage and care for our horses
and teams and perform the routine duties incident to
a permanent .camp.
From Springfield we moved out west a few miles,
camping for a few days at a large spring called
Cave Spring. Here several of our men were discharged
and returned home. Among them James
R. Taylor, brother of Captain, subsequently Colonel,
Taylor of the Seventeenth Texas Cavalry, who was
killed at the battle of Mansfield, La.
Southwest Missouri is a splendid country, abounding
in rich lands, fine springs of pure water, and
this year, 1861, an abundant crop of corn, oats,
hay, and such staples had been raised. Nevertheless,
a very unhappy state of things existed there
during the war, for the population was very much
divided in sentiment and sympathy-some being for
the North and some for the South, and the antagonism
between the factions was very bitter. Indeed,
so intense had the feeling run, the man of one side
seemed to long to see his neighbor of the other side
looted and his property destroyed. Men of Southern
sympathy have stealthily crept into our camps
at midnight and in whispers told us where some Union
men were to be found in the neighborhood, evidently
wishing and expecting that we would raid them and
kill or capture, rob, plunder or do them damage in
some terrible manner. Such reporters seemed to be
disappointed when we would tell them that we were
not there to make war on citizens, and the Union
men themselves seemed to think we were ready to
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Barron, S. B. The Lone Star defenders; a chronicle of the Third Texas cavalry, Ross brigade, book, 1908; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth27719/m1/64/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.