JUNE 10-23, 1864 --- Operations in the District of Central Missouri.
Reports of Brig, Gen. Egbert B. Brown, U. S. Army, commanding District of Central Missouri.*
WARRENSBURG, MO., June 21, 1864.
We have had several successful affairs with the guerrillas on the borders of Jackson and La Fayette in the past ten days, killing Col. Dick Yeager, who, with others, led the guerrillas when we lost 12 men near Kingsville and 8 men with the train near Lexington.
K, B. BROWN,
Brigadier-General of Volunteers.
Maj. O. D. GREENE.
Assistant Adjutant-General.
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Report of Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton, U, S. Army, commanding District of Central Missouri,
WARRENSBURG-, July 30, 1864.
MAJOR: A corporal and four men of Company G, Seventh Cavalry Missouri State Militia, while hunting a stray horse on Blackwater on the 28th were attacked by Dick Yeager, with about twenty men; a running fight ensued in which 2 guerrillas were killed, and Yeager severely wounded. No casualties on our side.
A. PLEASONTON, Major-General, Commanding.
Maj. O. D. GREENE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
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No. 2.
Reports of Capt. Melville U. Foster, Seventh Missouri State Militia
Cavalry.
HOLDEN, July 29, 1864.
CAPTAIN: Corporal Hisey, Company G, with four men, while hunting stray horse, were attacked day before yesterday evening, on Blackwater, by Dick Yeager and twenty men; drove the guerrillas into the brush, after severely wounding Yeager, and made good their escape. Have just returned 'from Big Creek, after running fight all day yesterday with a squad of Yeager's men; killed 2. Yeager's band is scattered into small squads over this country.
M. U. FOSTER,
Captain, Commanding.
Capt. J. H. STEGER,
Assistant Adjutant General,
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KANSAS CITY, Mo., September 5, 1864.
Capt J. H. STEGER,
Assistant Adjutant General, Warrensburg, Mo.:
Have just returned. Scouted thoroughly in neighborhood of Round and Texas Prairies, Bone Hill, Snibar Hills, and Blue Bottoms. The enemy have not left the country. Small bauds of from five to twenty are passing and repassing the line of La Fayette and Jackson Counties every day. Found water very scarce. Both men and horses suffered from thirst. Spy reports that a party of soldiers found the hiding place of Dick Yeager, where he was lying wounded, and killed him, supposed to be some of the Missouri State Militia. They did not know that it was Dick they killed. So says the report.
J. H. FORD, Colonel