ST. LOUIS, March 29. – From the mail agent of the Pacific
Railroad intelligence has been received of a spirited skirmish which took place
on Wednesday last at the town of Womelsburg, between Quantrell’s guerrilla
followers and a detachment of Col. Phillip’s Missouri Regiment, under the
command of Major Fenton. On the day
named Quantrell unexpectedly appeared in the town with 200 men, and made a
furious attack on the Union troops, who were only sixty in number. The latter made a gallant defence, and having
the protection of a thick plank fence around their position, they succeeded,
after an obstinate conflict, in repulsing the guerrillas and driving them beyond
the limits of the town.
Quintrell returned to Wartensburg on the day following, and
began a new attack about 11 o’colck, the result of which is not yet known.
As my informant came through Georgetown, Lieut. Col.
Crittenden, of Phillip’s regiment was preparing to go south with a detachment
of the regiment, to furnish assistance.
Colonel Crittenden stated that scouting parties from the regiment has
succeeded in discovering and capturing about 200 kegs of powder belonging to
the rebels in Pettis county.
The following was received at headquarters this evening:
To. Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War, Washington:
“Official information has been received that Lieut. A. H.
Crittenden, Missouri Militia, on the 19th inst., found buried on the farm of
Mrs. B. B. Marten, near Warrensburg, 125 kegs of powder, and that on the 22d,
Lieut. J. M. Jewett, with twenty men, had a skirmish with the rebels near the
same place.”
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 5, 1862, p. 4
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