. 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 .. . w ^. HISTORY OF SALINE COUNTY. 721 engagements in which his command participated. At the battle of LittleOsage he was nearly covered with dirt thrown up by a cannon ball. RICHARD E. HOLMES, farmer and stockraiser, P. O., in Prince William county, Virginia, April 24, 1826. Was
. 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 .. . w ^. HISTORY OF SALINE COUNTY. 721 engagements in which his command participated. At the battle of LittleOsage he was nearly covered with dirt thrown up by a cannon ball. RICHARD E. HOLMES, farmer and stockraiser, P. O., in Prince William county, Virginia, April 24, 1826. Was educatedin same place. Raised on a farm. January 12, 1851, he married Char-lotte C. Peters, a native of Fauquier county, Virginia. They had ninechildren, four of whom are now living, three daughters an<;J one son:Laura L., Bettie, Annie R., and Willie S. In 1857 he moved to Salinecounty, locating near Marshall, where he remained for two years. In1860 he purchased the farm upon which he now resides, consisting of 240acres of good farm land, which by steady application he has developedinto a well appointed farm. In the fall of 1861 he enlisted in CaptainEmmersons company and was captured at Blackwater. He was heldprisoner at St. Louis for three months, when he took the oath of loyaltyand came home. CHAR
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