. Four years with five armies: Army of the frontier, Army of the Potomac, Army of the Missouri, Army of the Ohio, Army of the Shenandoah . the eveningof the second day we camped at Wyandotte,twenty-eight miles from Fort Leavenworth,on the west side of the Kaw River, and di-rectly opposite Kansas City, Missouri. Theofficers and men soon made their appearanceon the streets and in the hotels of Kansas City,and at that time there were many refugeesthere. Some were business men of Inde-pendence and other towns who had been com-pelled to leave their homes because of theirUnion sentiments. A delegati
. Four years with five armies: Army of the frontier, Army of the Potomac, Army of the Missouri, Army of the Ohio, Army of the Shenandoah . the eveningof the second day we camped at Wyandotte,twenty-eight miles from Fort Leavenworth,on the west side of the Kaw River, and di-rectly opposite Kansas City, Missouri. Theofficers and men soon made their appearanceon the streets and in the hotels of Kansas City,and at that time there were many refugeesthere. Some were business men of Inde-pendence and other towns who had been com-pelled to leave their homes because of theirUnion sentiments. A delegation of them waited on ColonelDoubleday, and explained to him that Quan-trill with a band of about a hundred men wascamped a few miles from Independence,twelve miles from Kansas City, and that hewas in the habit of riding into town everynight and running it to suit his own had, with the aid of companies of localtroops, tried to dislodge him, but in the manyengagements he had always come out victo-rious. They said they would go and act asguides and scouts, and fight as well as thetroops, if the Colonel would give them the. CharlEvS Grandison Fairchii^d Second Ohio Volunteer Cavalry FACING 54 My First Picket Duty 55 opportunity. But he said a move of that kindhad to be made with the utmost caution andsecrecy. If a hint should be dropped to any-one in sympathy with the South, notice wouldreach the band before a detail could start. CHAPTER V MY FIRST SKIRMISH AFTER we had answered to our namesat retreat the next day, the captain- said there was to be a scouting partyto make a night raid, and the majorwanted ten men from Company E. Hewanted to know if that number would step tothe front as volunteers. I was standing in thefront rank, and I stepped to the front as quickas possible, but was not there any too soon,for twenty were there as soon as I, with morecoming. The captain ordered all but ten tobreak ranks. As no one disputed my right, Iwas permitted to go as one of the
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