Price's Lost Campaign: The 1864 Invasion of Missouri

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211 Notes Introduction 1. Estimates of its size around Union run to 15,000 men with “about 5000 camp followers .” With a force of 14,000 men joined by 600 guerrillas in Arkansas and 1,500 in southern Missouri, “nearly 2,000 citizens had been pressed into Confederate service.” Also 2,000 were ready to join. “The rebel force then cannot be less than 20,000.” Some estimates ran as high as 35,000. At the higher levels, accounts indicate a force large enough to be under the command of General Kirby-Smith or include the 5,000 infantry under Magruder said to have entered southern Missouri in the wake of Price. John Benjamin Sanborn,“The Campaign in Missouri in Sept. and October, 1864,”144;“The Missouri Invasion,” Boston Herald, October 7, 1864, p. 2l; “From Missouri,” New York Tribune, October 7, 1864, p. 1; “General Price’s Movements in Missouri,” Richmond Daily Dispatch, October 7, 1864, p. 1; “From Missouri,” Richmond Daily Dispatch, October 10, 1864, p. 1l; for the breakdown,“The Invasion of Missouri,” New York Tribune, October 11, 1864, p. 1;“The Great Contest. From Missouri,”New York Tribune, October 12, 1864, p. 1;“Late from the West. The invasion of Missouri. Demonstration on Memphis ” (from Republican, October 7) New Orleans Daily Picayune, October 16, 1864, p. 4;“Price’s Invasion of Missouri. Reliable Account of Rosecran’s Operations Against the Enemy” (from Missouri Republican), Louisville Daily Journal, November 2, 1864, p. 1; and The Civil War in Ripley County, Missouri: A Collection of Historical Stories Published on the Occasion of the Reenactment of Sterling Price’s First Engagement in His Invasion of Missouri (Doniphan: Prospect-News, 1992), 16. Mistakenly, “1,500 fighting men” and 5,000 camp followers were reported in the“Telegraphic News,”Louisville Daily Journal, October 7, 1864, p. 1. 2. William Forse Scott, “The Last Fight for Missouri,” Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, New York, Recollections of the War of the Rebellion, Third Series (1907), 292. 3. “From Missouri,” Richmond Daily Dispatch, October 10, 1864, p. 1, which also repeated the mistaken story in the Union press that General Douglas Cooper was in the invading force.“From Missouri,” Richmond Daily Dispatch, October 10, 1864, p. 1; “Latest Northern Reports—Glorious Successes of Price’s Army,” Charleston Mercury, October 8, 1864, p. 1. 212 Notes to Pages 3–12 4. Catalogue of the Confederate Museum of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society , Corner Twelfth and Clay Streets, Richmond, Virginia (Richmond,VA: Ware & Duke, Print., 1905). Price and his troops entering the battle of Corinth. Lithograph 24 on the wall of the Missouri Department of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society, 258. 5. John N. Edwards, Shelby’s Expedition to Mexico, an Unwritten Leaf of the War (Kansas City, MO: Jennie Edwards, Publisher, 1889), 232. Prologue 1. William Pidgeon’s Traditions of De-Coo-Dah (New York: Horace Thayer & Co., 1853). 2. For biographical material on Price in this and the following two paragraphs, see Ralph R. Rea, Sterling Price, the Lee of the West (Little Rock, AR: Pioneer Press, 1959), 11–12, 13–14, 17–18, 19–22. See also W. L. Webb, Battles and Biographies of Missourians : or, The Civil War Period of Our State (Kansas City, MO: Hudson-Kimberly Pub. Co., 1900), 283–93; Robert E. Shalhope, Sterling Price, Portrait of a Southerner (Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1971), and Albert Castel, General Sterling Price and the Civil War in the West (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1968). James A. Crutchfield, Tragedy at Taos: The Revolt of 1847 (Plano: Republic of Texas Press, 1995). 3. Crutchfield, Tragedy at Taos, 49–51, 56–57, 65–66, 72–73, 83–85, 90, 110, 105, 106–7, 109–10, 117–18, 118–20, 120–23, 123–24, 126–29, 129–32, (Polk quoted) 136, 137–39, 140, 144; Jacqueline Dorgan Meketa, From Martyrs to Murderers: The Old Southwest’s Saints, Sinners, and Scalawags (Las Cruces, NM: Yucca Tree Press, 1993), 105, 106, 107–9. Kearney’s column was to be followed by the Mormon batallion under Captain Philip St. George Cooke, who would later face his son-in-law, J. E. B. Stuart, across the battlefields of Virginia. 4. Rea, Sterling Price, 25–26, 27–29, 31. 5. John N. Edwards, Shelby and His Men: or, the War in the West (Cincinnati: Miami Print & Publishing Co., 1867), 15. Edwards also talked of 200,000 voters in the state. For this period in the...