, 1862-04-26
THE KANSAS "JaYHAWKERS." ="
The Record Of the Kansas First
Cavalry.
NhyPre-Slarery Generals and Ntsger.
Eatel1ers 4nte Jenntson and
his meUs
Especial Correspondence OF the Chicago Ttibunc. ]
CAMP WENDELL PHILLIPS
LAWBEKCE Kausaa. Anril Il 1Si2


LAWRENCE, Kansas, april II, 1852.
As all kinds Of reports are in circulation
touching s*Jennison and 1is Jayhawkers," as
Col. t1cnnison and his regiment list cavalry
Z. W are called, wish to mske some state-
ments through your widely circulating sheet
in regard to our past career, that the public
may not be obliged TO form q verdict with no
testimony except pro~sIaFerg testimony. The
regiment was organized last October and went
Immediately into service In Missouri, and has
on every possible opportunity engaged
the enemy regardless Of their numbers and |
advantage Of position, and have engaged them |
With au caruestness that has ensured its sue |
cess in all cases. On the 18th Of November, |
Ito men detached under Lieut.. Col Anthony,
fought $50 rebels On the Little Blue River near
Independence where the rebels had selected !
their Own position in rayine and amongst |
trees and rocks, with q loss of only s Of our |
men killed and wounded, and loss Of so reb- |
els killed and wounded. At Sam. Hayes We |
fought them with only 24 men against 200. |
At Columbus, johnson Co., M:, IS Of us un-
der Capt. Merriman, fought 500 rebels, under
Col. Elliot, and drove them from the place
| and burned the town to the ground, our loss
| killed and wounded; their loss unknown
| to us. We have destroyed everything that
| came in our way belonging to the rebels
also the property Of loyd citizens is falsc as IS
the heart and tongue that fabricated it, as
know that it has been the unwavering policy
| ofCol Jcnnison and the other officers to afford
the amp1ess protection to such persons. And TO
this end Coi. Jennison offered protection to al,
let their past conduct be what it might, on con
| di,ion that they would execute to The United
States Government deed Of forfeiture Of
all their property, both personal and real,
conditioned that in case the grantors thereof
remained loyal to said United States Govern
ment and were not guilty Of aiding, ahett'ng,
hazboring or encouraging the enemies thereof,
then said deed TO be null aud void, otherwise
to be bonaflde conveyance.
| The horses on which We are mounted are in
the main horses, that hare been taken from
| rebels, and our subsistence has tcen while in
Missouri, to great extent, at the expense Of
the rebels-in Snort, there was no safety for
either rebel property OF rebel life where Jenni-
son went.
But there has been astrong influence against
the regiment. And why? Because that vilc
this influence has been interposed at several
times when we have been in the very act Of
marching against the enemy with confidence
Of winning bright victories, and ordered Us
! sas, and finally, it has succeeded in placing us
: out here where we can do nothing. Also 3 900
other able-bodied troops TINT are anxious to
Is see service, viz: the 1st Kansas, which has
L iafh and ISL Wisconsin regiments, makiag
. about 1000 efficient troops being here, while
Curtis and Sigel are contendfng against great
i" odds, with Price, and we are to march next
Saturday for FGEt IT. RIlsy RreRaIato5y to e5oss,
q things are done through 8 pro-s1a7ery inau-
= ence that is now more loyal to the South
J, than the North, and this same infu-
It ence bonsts that "we hayo got the id Abo.
s lit1onista where we can corren them" and
- even now guerilla bands are invading the bor.
'e de1s Of Kansas from Missouri; and It is boast
II ed by the pro-slagery people Of Kansas, that
!, every Free State man shall be driven out ol
n Kansas yet.
see fit to term Jennisol, has rendered his res
n ignation because, as he says, he does mol
ID think he can render his country true service
Il under the officers and circumstances that he Il
'' placed, as he is ordered to give up those deed
y Of forfeiture taken by him last winter, to tht
th grantors-and large bills are being allowed fo
n. payment to the very teoyst Of sccessionists 70
- property taken and destroyed by him duEin:
r his last winters campaign, even the notet
ds wick and Capt Bcrchard of our regiment wen
49, asgassinated by his brother, Capt. Cpto1
Ut Hays, and his company Of rebels who are nov
With Prce-is to have pay from the Govern
ment Tor bis property confscated By Jennlso1
last Ninter.
III Such arc the effects Of trying to put dow
os | the rebellion under council Of Shareholder
Is. and slave apologists. But wehave made SON
-, th,usts at the unho1y rebellion, the effects c
IN Wiica can not be effdced. Many rebels hay
lat Lit the dust at our hands, and va have tram
lie ferred between ], 100 and ], 800 human being
a from slavery to freedom.
'u' The people Of: Lawrence are doing then
to selves great honor by their energy Ia educa
ial | ing the contrabands, as they give them fFe
e,n Instructions 1--WE evenings each week.
49, Our noble captain. John Brown, jr., has bee
u. confined to his quarters by the rheumatism Il
hat two months and half
eif Hoping that your space may not be so oce
,ed pied Is to forbid your giving this statement
7eo 1he course Of the '*JaybawRers'' an insertio
IN (as We are grossly 1niareprcsented aud sla
be | dered By the friends ofslAverJ all through Il
,fps NoEth,) I am, sir,
IN = Yours for my Country and for Freedom.