. . . that on Saturday week Col. Moor, of the Northeast Missouri
regiment, sent out an expedition of 170 men, part mounted, to scour the country
around Memphis, Mo. A secesh woman got
an hour and a half start of them, and alarmed the prowling ruffians, who were
pursued in scattered bodies a distance of thirty five miles, and eighty of
their number captured, though Bill Dunn, their leader, escaped by clean
running. On the return the party burned
some secesh distilleries, to cut off the supply of bad whisky, as essential to
the marauders. – They returned to Memphis on Monday, bringing in twenty five
prisoners, some horses and guns – in all a short and bloodless expedition. Col. Moore ordered up the eighty prisoners in
line, upon first taking them, and picked out the most inoffensive looking to
receive the oath of allegiance.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 1, 1862, p. 1
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