. History of Saline County, Missouri, carefully written and compiled from the most authentic official and private sources ... with a condensed history of Missouri; the state constitution; a military record of its volunteers in either army of the great civil war ... biographical sketches of prominent men .. . -colonel was T. T. Crittenden,afterward governor of the state, did a great deal of service for the Unioncause from first to last in Missouri. FIGHTING BEGINS IN EARNEST. Hitherto there had been no collisions between the forces in this countyof any consequence, but from the spring of 1862,
. History of Saline County, Missouri, carefully written and compiled from the most authentic official and private sources ... with a condensed history of Missouri; the state constitution; a military record of its volunteers in either army of the great civil war ... biographical sketches of prominent men .. . -colonel was T. T. Crittenden,afterward governor of the state, did a great deal of service for the Unioncause from first to last in Missouri. FIGHTING BEGINS IN EARNEST. Hitherto there had been no collisions between the forces in this countyof any consequence, but from the spring of 1862, to the close of the war,there were many small skirmishes and unimportant encounters betweenthe Confederates and Union men, or Federals. These were for the mostpart between scouting parties of the Federal militia and the Confederatepartisan rangers, or bushwhackers, or guerrillas, as they weretermed—the latter being organizations led by men who held no militarycommissions, but did as they pleased, or as they could. They lived onthe country, armed and uniformed themselves, and took their pay out ofwhat they could capture. These little skirmishes usually amounted to an exchange of shots, thekilling or wounding of one or two men, and a speedy retreat. Probablythe first of these encounters was the iPKj,.
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