SPRINGFIELD, Mo., March 1.
Special to Mo. Republican.
On Wednesday night, Capt. Montgomery of Wright’s battalion, with his company was surprised at Keitsville by 850 rebels, supposed to belong to McBride’s division, but who represented themselves as Texan rangers. They fired into a house occupied by our men, killing two and wounding one. One of the rebels was killed and the balance fled, taking with them about 70 horses. Two wagons loaded with sutler’s stores were burned the same night, at a farm two miles beyond Keitsville.
Cols. Ellis and Wright, with adequate cavalry force, were sent to Keitsville.
Price had burned several public buildings at Fayetteville, including the arsenal, lead factory, several flouring mills and 100,000 pounds of flour. Many inhabitants along the road have fled, deceived by the lies of Price, that all would be butchered.
Strong Union feeling is exhibited by those remaining. An old soldier of 1812 brought out a Union flag long kept concealed.
The fear that the combined forces of Price, Van Dorn, McCulloch, McIntosh and Pike will again overrun the country, keeps thousands from avowing their sentiments. Price, after a hot chase, is cooling off in Boston Mountains, and Ben. McCulloch is on this side.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, March 6, 1862, p. 1
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