" Encountering scarcely a friend or a scout between Boggy
Depot and the Arkansas, Quantrell crossed this river fifty miles
above Fort Gibson, killing on the further bank five Pin Indiana
who were in camp there, perfectly oblivious of all danger, and
pushed on north to the vicinity of Baxter Springs, Kansas,
getting over the Neosho river on the east of the town and at
Gilstrap's ferry."
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" Anderson, emerging now from the obscurity of a Southern wintering
place, was about to begin that ferocious career, that mad,
impatient gallop which was only to end with his heroic death,
one man, single-handed, closing with and grappling a regiment.
Leaving Texas three weeks after Quautrell, some difficulties
were encountered which forced him to countermarch even from
Boggy Depot back and re-enter Texas. They were characteristic
of the man and his surroundings. On the journey up two
of his soldiers, Ben Broomfield and Peyton Long; straggled at
Sherman and became entangled in a quarrel with some Jndians
near Colbert's ferry, and killed a Choctaw named Colbert.
Pursued, they held their own until Anderson was overtaken at
Boggy Depot and made acquainted with the extremity of the
Guerrillas. He condemned the shooting, but he stood by the
men. An Indian runner, swifter than the Missourians, gained
Boggy Depot in advance of them and reported the shooting to
the Confederate commander there, having at his back a garr"
page 237
"son of three hundred men. As Anderson rode into the town.
a Confederate Lieutenant surrounded his little band with sixty
soldiers and demanded Long and Broomfield. Anderson refused
to deliver them up, but promised to punish them himself.
Not satisfied with this, the Lieutenant ordered the soldiers to fire.
Scarcely had the command left his lips when Anderson shot him
dead, the balance of the Guerrillas receiving and returning a
point blank volley. Jim Crow Chiles had his horse killed, and
several of Anderson's men were wounded, but he broke through
the environment and returned rapidly to Texas, followed by an
excited and revengeful posse. Shelby's emphatic influence in the
Department, and the immense energy with which he exercised
it, saved Anderson from further trouble and enabled him, two
weeks later, to start unembarrassed the second time to Missouri."
~Don