Near Oxford. A day
of excitement which came near ending in a serious affair, caused by certain
members of the 1st Missouri Regular Battery assailing the colored cooks as they
were going after water. After dinner as Anthony [the colored cook] was passing
by, he was assaulted and abused. He appealed to the boys, when a rush was made,
and in an instant a crowd was gathered consisting of the 6th and 12th Wisconsin
and 11th Ohio against the Regulars, armed with clubs, revolvers, knives and
axes. The officers interposed, which closed it with but a few bloody noses and
several knock downs. Warm and heavy.
SOURCE: Jenkin Lloyd
Jones, An Artilleryman's Diary, p. 19
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