150 Years Ago: A Regiment of Missouri Volunteers Arrives in Columbia
Columbia Daily Tribune › November 06, 2011
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COLUMBIA -- Lt. Col. Erastus Morse with 80 men from the 10th Missouri Volunteers arrived in Columbia after a two-day march from Fayette.
He brought with him two men arrested in Fayette for disloyalty. Morse and his mounted command had marched from Renick on the North Missouri Railroad across Howard and Chariton counties and back, pursuing a guerrilla band under Capt. John Sweeney.See the full content of this document
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150 Years Ago: A Regiment of Missouri Volunteers Arrives in Columbia
Morse set up camp on the fairground east of the city.
?STURGEON -- Brig. Gen. Benjamin Prentiss had scouting parties searching out rebel camps while other soldiers rounded up secessioni...See the full content of this document
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