The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-01-24
Col. Moore Captures so aeee sh.-Eie
BURNS their Dtssillerfes.
BENrokspoRT, Jan. q

HyhS w report 10 you IT0M Sol MoOIe
Ne, Mo. Regiment
On last Saturday night Col. Moore
gave orders to the various companies to
detail certain number of men to be
ready with ratious for three days SCOTT.
All the preparations were made quietly
and with apparent secrecy, but men will
tell one another, and some men will tell
their wives. At one p. m. Sunday about
Ito men, part mounted and some on
sheds, were ready TO move; but 10! . lady,
Ia certain Mrs. Gates,--had managed
to get some three hours the start, notwith-
standing all our precaution. The whole
party left Memphis at Il p. m, and by
the time it was fairly dark some Of the
scouts had travelled 35 miles, securing the
country in every direction, and capturing
about so secessionists, some Is of whom
were Bill Dunn's soldiers, just returned
from the Missouri river. But the some
what famous Bill Dunn made lis escape
by keen running, but was so hard pushed
by Geo. Wilson that he had no time to
take his saddle from his tired horse to put
| it on fresh one, SO he lost his tired nag
and rode his race horse barebacked thro'
the brush, in the dark,
.'o'sr the hills and far away
The Colonel formed the rebels in line
and put them through the usual drill in
order to see what perfection of drill they
had acquired He concluded that some
30 of them were but poorly drilled, and
therefore administered the usual oath and
let them 60. hoping for their reformation.
On the scout they visited place known
as Bryan's Mills in Schuyler county. II
is situated in deep hollow, surrounded
By thick brushwood. There was a dis
tillery connected with the mill and it has
long been the resort Of Dunn and othc,
secesh. tt so happens in Missouri tina,
brushy land breeds secesL; and then only
think of distillery down in deep hol.
low, where they make quantities of bad
whisky, and get it all drank on the ground;
you may think, but cannot realize what a
fayorite resort for secesh. So Col. Moore
thought he would cut off the supply BY
ordering the distillery to be burned, and
while the flames were curling beautifully
around the chimney he practiced his ar
tillery on the still standing chimney, and
all is now leyeled down. The curling
flames consuming bad whisky, the crack
ling timbers, the glare. of fire on the men $
faq and eyes of dark night, the roar
ing Of cannon in that desolate place, and
then the wo.besone coanlenances of the
secesh prisoners, made a very striking
scene.
Another doggery in little town called
Union, that furnished the grog to raise
the first secesh flag that was unfurled iu
Northeast Missouri, shortly after the boys
rassed wis seen to be in flames.
This burning is not done out Of malice.
but only to cut off supplies, as bad whisky
is as necessary to a secessionist as treasury
pap to an oficeholder
The scouts returned to Memphis abou,
8 O'Clock last night, bringing IN some "a
or rs prisoners, about dozen guns and
few horses--in all short aud bloodless
expedition.
Bill Dunn thought We all had the
measles, and therefore he could crow and
buster, but be finds that good many Of
US had the measles more than forty years
ago.
You may have heard that Col. Moore
aud Woodyard's commands had been con-
solidated, making one full regiment, and
woodward our Lieut.. Colonel. The ar
Eangement has not been consummated as
/
vet. Col. Holmes has recently been down
to Palmyra and returns with Gen. Prem
tiss' order to continue on duty at this post,
and is therefore our Lieut.. Colonel for the
time at least.
We have only about 100 men sick with
measles, and as yet have lost none.
Yours in haste, a. w. III.
killing OF Major Marshall.
News was received in this city yester-
day of the killing Of Major George @.
Marshall. of Merrill's Horse, at Knob
Noster, Missouri, on Sunday. He was
killed by the notorious rebel desperate,
"Arkansaw" Robinson, who, in his turn,
was killed by some of the Union soldiers,
Major Marshall was native of Maine.
and resided at Chiilicothe, in this State -