Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-11-26
NOVEMBER 26. 1904
BULL RUN IN MINIATURE.
In Ex-Confederate -e,ls a Funny
Story of His Adventures in
\ Northern Missouri.
SATURDAY.

II Northern Missouri.
I In the summer of 1861 Col Martin
6reen vas appointed brigadier gen
eral OF me secession .orcts n tae First
congressional district Of Missouri and
Ne gathered up 1900 men 10 stamp out
pnionism in that section, and particu-
farly to wipe eff the c39 q Col. David
Moore, and his "First Northeastern
Missouri infar ~" wh,cS were sta
Honed at Athens, Mo. Or J. I. Norris.
now prominent physicisr Of Nahoka.
Mo-, was one Of Green band. 1.-THE
dover of the land" as the secession
papers described them, and gives this
account of the battle:
Our men got OF their horses and
6ed them to trees and fence posts.
Ihey were armed with shotEuns and
squirrel rifles that would shoot posi-
oly from rs to $50 yards. nep we had
fwo cannon, a six and a aine FOUNDER.
The federals lined up IN TIE form OF
m l. Our cannon were unlimbered
and the gunners went to work. To me
1t looked homicidal to point those
grim monsters at human beings. Re
member, none Of us knew any Tuere OF
war beyond what we had read in the
books.
The cannoneers applied their
matches. l shuddered aud turned my
Aesd- Two awful detonadons followed
and the balls lit in Iowa They gra-
siously Travelled about 800 feet above
The enemy. who jeered us
For two hours the battle ragged on
aanks and center. Word came TO us
Shat the Des Moines river was almost
ehoked with the corpses of the federais.
II was said the river was becoming a
Tich carmine hue. We cheered and
started forward. Then we made a dis
agreeable discovery-the enemy's mus
kets would shoot more than twice as
far as our hunting guns. We might
yasi ~ ncH have been shooting in tho
~ for ~ tSc socd ge ~C.o Icing.
"Of course. he tN'~.~ - h-vo Zone
On learning OF the superior range of
sheir guns was 20 charge EN-. There
were eror~h &C NC to hove Gathered
IN tho whole crowd. hrass buttons ard
All. Bat their guns could outshoot
ours. and /; was as easy as adding two
and two to figure out that they must
necessarily he able to licE us. Every
SASSsVN NNAatfAfti tte luEnPU nilnSett INTO
q liShtuinS c..Duator to work out this
result and ;hoA made a break for his
horse.
lid I.run, too? You be, did. II
seens funny enough now. but thought
had fire reason for - then. In spite
Sf the Des Moiues river being damned
by dead bluccoats, we felt certain that
there were enough left 70 reach us with
those terrible long-range muskets.
You nev~- saw such mix-un az
when the fuaitivns tried TO unhitch
their horses. rev waited 10 unite them.
Some slashed ;he brides with a knife.
others tried o. '0~'- them loose by main
force. Tho horses iuhihed the terror
or their mas'o~S md iumrod around
franticaliY. MANY broke loose and
rushed wiiuIy across the field adding
Boldiers strCc.. oct across the country
without taking i---e to set their horses.
The cannon-th csc terrible engines de-
signed to terribly the eromy-were
dragged of The field and hidden in
some hazel brush.
THE rOut didn't stop until the con-
iederates got back TO their homes in
Marion, Lewis, Shelby, Scotland, Knox
and Schuyler counties You never saw
men so hOmesick in Ill your life. Dur
Ing all this panic and confusion there
Was no attempt by the enemy to DUR