This morning the command "forward” is given to the impatient men, and they march briskly, their steps are firm. To-day we witness war...

[ Mound City, Kansas , November 20, 1860.] In the winter of ’59, after the second expulsion of Border-ruffians, a county meeting, duly ...

The White House is turned into barracks. Jim Lane marshalled his Kansas warriors to-day at Willard's and placed them at the disposal of...

Started on our return at 8 o'clock, with drove of cattle and horses. Major and Purps went ahead, and a few miles from the road, to a de...

Archie and I cooked a respectable meal. Took our ease until five P. M. Then we marched again. Reached East Drywood at midnight. Capt. Stanh...

Archie and I cooked a respectable meal. Took our ease until five P. M. Then we marched again. Reached East Drywood at midnight. Capt. Stanh...

At 2 A. M. prepared for another day's march. At 3 were on the way. Reached Sparlan's, a noted secesh, at nine A. M. Fed and ate bre...

Moved the camp over the creek. Heard the stories, pitiful indeed, of Union refugees driven from home by the jayhawkers. Wrote home. ...

General Doubleday and bodyguard and a few officers came. In the evening a man came in saying Union man was shot by jayhawkers. Thirty men o...

Saw the boys jay-hawking from countryman who had apples, chickens, eggs, etc. They stole half he had. Read a chapter in Beecher's “Lett...

Continued our journey and reached Kansas City a little after noon. Arrested two men pretending to be secessionists — drunk. Encamped out on...

DETAILS OF HIS ARREST AND DEATH. __________ From the Leavenworth Conservative, 14th. From Lieut. J. G. Harris, of the Kansas 6th,...

ST. LOUIS, May 2, 1862. ALFRED SANDERS, Esq. – Dear Sir:   Reading in the Weekly Gazette of yesterday your editorial on Maj. Gen. U. S...

The sad news of the death of three members of Co. C, 1st Iowa Cavalry, murdered by guerillas in St. Clair county, Missouri, was received he...

DES MOINES, March 6. The stage has at last reached here, but we have no Davenport mail yet since the storm.   Representative McCall, of Sto...

ST. LOUIS, March 8. I learn that a fight took place at Chain of Rocks, on Cuivere River, Lincoln county, Mo., between 100 rebels and a comp...

Quantrell is the name of a depredator in Kansas who, at the head of some thirty men armed with Sharpe’s rifles and navy revolvers, has made ...

. . . the real name of the great jayhawker, Cleveland was Metz.   He used to drive a stage out of Cleveland, Ohio and hence adopted that nam...

ATCHISON, Kansas, May 5. – The municipal election to-day resulted in the election of most of the Union and anti-Jayhawkers tickets by a majo...

BUTLER, Bates County, Mo. April 26th, 1862 Editors Missouri Democrat: As a citizen and civilian of Iowa I feel some pride in the gallant Fir...