Reads, 'I occupy this town with two thousand men ?one hundred miles from support ?in the face of a strong force of the enemy, and have them frightened out of their wits.' Title: Note signed M. Jeff Thompson, Fredericktown, Mo., October 17, 1861 . 17 October 1861. Thompson, Meriwether Jeff, 1826-1876

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