The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-03-15
HARTsvILLE AND eArEsMLLE.

Gen. Marmaduke had sent half his forces,
about 5000 men, to Huntsville, No., under
Gen. Porter. Porter marched to Huntsville,
took possession of what he could there and
went on toward Marshfeld His intention
was to rejoin Marmaduke.
Col Merrill had been sent with $50 men to
reinforce Brown at Springfield. At Woods
Forks they met Marmaduke's Confederate
army returning from Springfield There was
Q sharp fight at the Forks, the Confederates
again retreating toward the south. Marina
duke and Porter formed a junction and
turned toward Hartsville, Mo. Learning this,
Merrill made forced march toward that
village, reached it ahead o. them and took
strong position. Thus he had Marmaduke's
! whole force opposed to him.
The fight was at short range and was q
savage one. Marmadukes men charged re-
peatedly, but could not shake the Federal
position.
At length once more the Confederates re-
treated, this time going south toward Arkan-
BaS. Their loss in officers had been very
heavy. Among those killed was Brig. Gen.
Porter himself.
Marmaduke pushed rapidly southwark
across the Arkansas line.
The fighting at Huntsville had taken place
Jan. II, 1858. MArmaduke was inactive for
der. At length he gathered part of his force
and marched to BateSville, q town in north
eastern Arkansas. 1t is situated on the
White river. At Batesville Marmaduke was
ade Of Missouri cavalry. Warning made an
attack on the Confederates Feb. 4, routed
| them and drove them across White river.
| Col George Z. Waring, who won the vic
| tory at Batesville, is more renowned in peace
than he had opportunity to become in war.
| He has an enviable reputation both in Amer
lea and Europe as a sanitary engineer and
| agricultural writer. He was born in Con-
necticut in 1888. He was at one time the en-
| gineer OF Central park, New York. He is a
spirited and pleasing writer, and a busy and
elective helper in all plans for identifying
| the American landscape and building health
| ful and attractive homes. Some of his best
| Farmers Vacation and Sanitary Drainage
/ Of Houses and Towns"
In the fight Mt Batesville, Col. Warning
| captured a number Of Marmaduke's men.
Disaster met another portion of Marmaduke's
force few weeks later, Feb. "a. They were
at Van Buren,, Ark. Three hundred OF
| them were aboard the steamer Julia RooSe,
| ready to descend the Arkansas river. Before
gerLing away however, the steamer was cap
| tured by Federal forces and the 800 made
prisoners.
Thus ended Marmadule's raid into Mis-
souri, early in 1865 1t was signalized by dis
aSter to him and his forces almost without
| interruption from beginning TO end. At the
close he went to Little Rock to equip anew
An affair took place March Is which shows
| wildly the methods of border warfare in
Missouri. A Missouri River steamboat, the
Sam Gaty, was descending that stream al
| Sibley's Landing, near Independence, with
eighty negroes ON board. A gang OF guer
rilas attacked her, robbed the passengers oi
their valuables and murdered a number OF
them They captured twenty of the eighty
negroes, drew them up in line on shore and
shot them through the head, one after an
other.