. The civil war on the border; . rcame in, and on the morning of the third day ColonelBuel, with his officers and enlisted men, somewhat overone hundred and fifty in number, started on foot forKansas City and Leavenworth to be exchanged. Afterwaiting at Leavenworth some one to two weeks, theseparoled prisoners were ordered to Benton Barracks, , and were mustered out of service. After the fatal mistake had been made, of takingmeasures to guard against a surprise, it was easy to seethat had Colonel Buel put two companies of his com-mand into the court-house, they could have held itagains
. The civil war on the border; . rcame in, and on the morning of the third day ColonelBuel, with his officers and enlisted men, somewhat overone hundred and fifty in number, started on foot forKansas City and Leavenworth to be exchanged. Afterwaiting at Leavenworth some one to two weeks, theseparoled prisoners were ordered to Benton Barracks, , and were mustered out of service. After the fatal mistake had been made, of takingmeasures to guard against a surprise, it was easy to seethat had Colonel Buel put two companies of his com-mand into the court-house, they could have held itagainst the enemy any length of time. But CaptainRodewald, whose loyalty to the Government was never BA TTLE OF INDEPENDENCE, 325 questioned, stated that if I were upon my oath I shouldsay that I believe that Colonel Buel acted in good faith,and did not betray his command into the hands of theenemy; that he did not display any lukewarmness duringthe fight, but even seized a musket and fired several shotsinto the rebel attacking CHAPTER XXIV. BATTLE OF LONE JACK. In the early part of August, reports were almost dailycoming to General James Totten commanding district ofCentral Missouri, headquarters at Sedalia, and to ColonelDaniel Huston, Seventh Missouri Cavalry, commandingpost of Lexington, that large detachments of Confederateforces were arriving in the counties of Jackson, La Fay-ette, and Johnson from the south; that these frag-mentary commands were being rapidly augmented byrecruits from those counties, in which there were largenumbers of men who preferred to join the Confederateservice to joining the loyal militia ; and that the Con-federate officers were preparing to concentrate theirforces in the neighborhood of Lone Jack, in the south-east corner of Jackson County, with the view of marchingon Lexington. The receipt of the information of thesurrender of Colonel Buels Federal force at Indepen-dence on the nth produced a profound impression, andled General Totten to imm
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