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Appendix A: Timetable of the Missouri Campaign, August 29–October 8, 1864
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195 Appendix A Timetable of the Missouri Campaign August 29–October 8, 1864 Locations in bold refer to the activities involving the Army of the Missouri directly, while italics indicate actions away from the main body of the Confederate forces. August 29 Princeton, Arkansas. Confederate General Sterling Price assumed command of the expeditionary forces. September 2 DuVall’s Bluff,Arkansas. Having slipped between the Federal garrisons on the Arkansas River, Shelby’s column encounters Federal troops. 8 Glass Village (Appleton), Arkansas. Cabell’s Confederate Arkansas troops clash with some of the Union Third Arkansas Cavalry: prisoners executed. 19 Army of Missouri enters the state in three columns under Marmaduke, Fagan, and Shelby. Doniphan and south to the Current River. Mounted Union reconnaissance of members of the Forty-seventh Missouri and Third MSM Cavalry encounters the advance of Shelby’s column, skirmishing repeatedly : town destroyed. Dallas County. Detachment of Sixteenth Illinois Cavalry clashes with guerrillas. 20 Vandiver’s Farm near Ponder’s Mills, Little Black River. Confederates pursued Federal reconnaissance from Doniphan and attack it: prisoners executed. 196 Appendices Keytesville, Chariton County (?). Confederate recruits raised in expectation of joining Price’s army forced the surrender of the small mobilized portion of the Thirty-fifth EMM defending the town: civilians murdered. 20–25 LaFayette County. Detachment of the Seventh MSM Cavalry scouting increased guerrilla activity. 22 Patterson. Union garrison abandoned, attacked while retreating toward Fort Davidson. Fredericktown. Shelby’s advance reaches the town, passing north. Longwood, Pettis County. First MSM Cavalry encounters guerrillas. Sikeston. Detachment of Second MSM Cavalry encountered Jeffer’s regiment of Marmaduke’s column of Price’s army. Carthage, Jasper County. Detachment of the Eighth MSM Cavalry encounters large force of guerrillas and Confederate recruits. Centralia, Boone County. Detachment of the Seventeenth Illinois Cavalry encounters guerrillas or Confederate recruiters. 23 Gosline Lane near Rocheport, Boone County.Detachment of the Third MSM Cavalry received a reported eleven casualties in clash with guerrillas. Arrow Rock Road, Saline County (?). Detachment of the Seventh MSM Cavalry scouting increased guerrilla activity. Blackwater, Cooper County. Battalion of the First MSM Cavalry encounters guerrillas. 24 Farmington. Part of Shelby’s Confederates fail to overcome members of the Sixty-eighth EMM and Forty-seventh Missouri defending the town. 24 Fayette, Howard County. Detachment of the Ninth MSM Cavalry received a reported eight casualties in clash with guerrillas. Jackson. Attempt of tiny force of the Fifty-sixth EMM to retake the town thwarted by return of Confederate regulars. 25 Farmington. Second attack by Shelby’s Confederates successfully overrun mixed force defending the town. Huntsville, Randolph County. EMM and guerrillas. 26 Arcadia. Slemon’s cavalry, the advance of Fagan’s division drove a detachment of the Second MSM Cavalry from the road to Ironton. Appendices 197 Ironton. The Arkansans engaged in two fights, the first to drive garrison members of the Forty-seventh Missouri from town or into the courthouse, and the second as some members of that unit, the Fiftieth Missouri, Third MSM Cavalry, and the Fourteenth Iowa with Battery H of the Second Missouri Light Artillery; reported casualties one hundred for the day. Shut-in Gap. Confederates retreat, pursued by those Federals who were mounted, but reinforced at the gap by more of Fagan’s division. 27 Ironton Gap, Shepherd Mountain, Pilot Knob, and the village of Pilot Knob. Union withdrawals from Ironton and, with much fighting , from the surrounding sites into Fort Davidson. Losses on both sides inaccurately reported. Fort Davidson. Most of Fagan’s and Marmaduke’s divisions engaged in full frontal assaults on the fort. Losses on both sides reported inaccurately , Confederates being given variously as 800 to 1,500. Mineral Point. Small garrisons, below town near Big River and railroad bridges, clash with Shelby’s men. Potosi. Elements of Shelby’s division overrun defense of the town by members of the Thirty-second EMM and Fiftieth Missouri. Prisoners and civilians killed. ? Cheltenham (out Manchester Road from St. Louis). Attack on a store by men believed to be guerrillas or Confederate scouts. Centralia, Boone County.“Bloody Bill”Anderson temporarily combined various guerrilla bands into a force of several hundred, which took the town on the North Missouri Railroad, murdering furloughed soldiers, veterans, and civilians. When three mounted companies of the new Thirty-ninth Missouri arrived, the guerrillas slaughtered them entirely, inflicting reported casualties for the day of over 150, mostly killed. 28 Caledonia. Members of the Third MSM Cavalry in the advance of the Union force escaping Fort Davidson encounter the advance of Shelby...