The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1864-12-06

IN LtAvtNwoaTiL KANSAS,
Nov b. 1851
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10, passed without many interesting
incidents 10 my experience a. a sol-
der, ard ] have bad luijmafiwns 81
diIereng times that communications 10
my friends through the columns o
your paper would not he entirely IN
welcome. Yet such has been the ma,
fare OF the service ia which eur reg.
imeni has been engaged, that freqaeu
aud regular letters, or indeed any 4
/ all, such a. would be I'll tor publia-
ton, would have been quite incoafen-
lent. During the close Of lSe month
Of February last We were seal TO be
distributed alosg, by com.Suics and
delachmcn;s, through the counties Of
jackson, Bolts, 'Cass and Vernon, on
the Western bord Of Missourij there
TO watch the frontier against al enc
mics, and especially loguard the State
Of Kansas and the loyal inhabitants q
that section, u any, against the bush
whackers an guerillas OF which Mis-
souris soil is SO productive. In this
kind Of seryice--wlich requires the
exercise of the utmost vigilance
against the most wary Of foes--and
which was extremely hazardous; for
we fought under the black flag, and
neither received nor accepted quarter
we were very successful, in that we
succeeded in making bushwhacking
eoniessedly the most dangerous oecu-
patton that ever attracted the stlen-
ton Of tie young men Of the FIRST fam
lies q Missouri. During four months
of the Spring and Summer, our com.
mand, while losing less than thirty in
all, had score Of not less than ten
times as many with which to credit
the account Of the knights Of the
brush. This result was mainly owing
TO the fact that we adopted The enc
my's own mode OF warfare with sew
eral improvements, as we think. We
had out constantly an "Independent
Scout consisting Of twenty-five men
which, with fresh horses constantly at
command and growing commission"
to come and so when aud where il
should seem best to live Off the enemy
and serve the common cause as
might seem best. We accomplished
much which in no Other way could
have been so we'll done much that
may not tunspire till the secret histo-
ry Of the great Rebellion is written in
detail. Heretofore, the bush8hackers
had felt safest when. in the dense for.
ests whore no one daring 10 follow
them, iley toneoctcd anew fresh
schemes of rapine and blood. One q
The most notorious o. these Gends, who
was killed at the battle of the Little
Blue, declared that this year he new
er felt SO secure as when on high
prairie eminence his eye could com.
mand the range in every direction
They knew not from which quarter 10
anticipate an attack. Sometimes at
midnight our battle cry reused them
from their slumbers 10 seek safety in
flight aud again while threading their
paths through the wilderness unsuspi-
cious Of danger, "a .murdeious volley
from the brush would end the career
Of some and scatter the survivors in
every direction. No retreat Of theirs
was SO emoe that they were not La
BILE TO be hunted out Of it at any hour.
The falling leaves Of Autumn and
the approach Of the horde Of nvad-
ers under Price and Marmaduke, com
PEELED the bushwhaekers to leave ,heir |
hiding places and necessialed tire con-
OF all our forces, TO oppose
he progress Of the enemy. The I'd
Colorado met them At Lexington, Lit.
lie Blue, Big Blue, Westport, Neosho
and pursued their flying |
columns until their rear guard disap
Deared under the FIRE Of our guns,
across The Ark ansas ia the direction
,f Texas, thus ri dding, as we be-
ieve, this whole region from the last
lie invasion. Ii matters not
hat it seems to us that the manage
nent might have been such as to have
occurred the capture or humiliation Of
he whole invading force. The work
ias been done as it has, and The pur-
uil called off.
The skies seem very bright. The
'ebellion seems Keeling 10 its over
brow. How much vitality il still Ess-
esses, we may not now determine,
'ut every patriot who cannot see 10