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Dr. McPeeters in his diary entry for Tuesday, October 11, 1864 at Boonville, Mo. notes:

"Repaired to the City Hotel [which is] General's Hd. Quarters and the resort of a hundred ladies and admiring friends."

A later entry of this date: "Towards noon firing on our rear was heard and the report came in that our pickets had been driven in and that the enemy were pressing our men. Soon there was a stir---troops were called out [and] the General went to the front. I fixed up my affairs, mounted my horse and made hospital and other arrangements---took the Thespian Hall for a hospital."

The day before he noted: " . . . arrived in Boonville about 9 o'clock. Found the town in possession of Shelby and the citizens in great excitement and all the southern portion of them overjoyed at our arrival. Many friends long seperated met and tears of joy were shed. . . . About 11 o'clock Gen. Price arrived. The citizens flocked to see him and for the rest of the day the scene baffles description."

[I Acted from Principal, The Civil War Diary of Dr. William M. McPeeters, Confederate Surgeon in the Trans-Mississippi, edited by Cynthia DeHaven Pitcock and Bill J. Gurley, The University of Arkansas Press, Fayetville, 2002, pp. 229/30. I recommend this book highly as a valued addition to any CW library]

George Martin

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