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318 SHELBY AND HIS MEN; OR,
From the ruin and desolation of the railroad, General Shelby
made a dash at Potosi, drove its garrison into the court-house,
and ordered Collins to unlimber at a distance of three hundred
yards. Eight Parrott shells decided the struggle, and up
went a white flag, whiter than the faces of twenty-two dead
sleeping quietly below. Four hundred Federals surrendered.
Shelby camped in and near the town, and after dark the various
scouting parties sent out in the morning to work mischief began
to return.
Lieutenant Selby Plattenburg, with only thirty men, had
been up toward Irondale and met a hundred and fifty Federals
escorting eleven wagons loaded with supplies. Undeterred by
the heavy odds against him, he charged the detachment, dis-
persed it, captured forty-two, and returned to camp bringing
with him the prisoners and the teams. From every direction
they poured in. Officers Tony, Dickey, Adams, Lane, Crispin,
Will Moorman, Tom Walton, Will Gregg, Charley Lewis, Frank-
lin, Gillett, Marchbanks, Kelly, Sears, Meadows, Coyle, Burt,
Redd and Langhorne brought the terrified and surprised militia
to General Shelby, until eleven hundred blue-coats were huddled
together awaiting, as they fully believed, immediate death. The
fine depot at Potosi, with the branch track, cars, and machine-
shops, was given to the flames. Vainly awaiting at Potosi, for
orders from General Price, General Shelby grew uneasy and res-
tive. He had swiftly and decidedly executed the work marked
out for him, and had remained twenty-four hours for instructions
which were due upon his arrival. Still not hearing, he turned
back. toward Pilot Knob, intending, if not communicating with
General Price, to march on to that place, which he knew had
been attacked. At Caledonia the advance of Marmaduke's divi-
sion was met in pursuit of Ewing's forces, which had, by some
mistaken generalship, been allowed to escape from Pilot Knob.
It seems that General Price moved against Ironton on the morn-
ing of October 26th, and drove the Federals into the town, but
they evacuated Fort Curtis, an unimportant work between Ar-
cadia and Ironton, during the night, and took position in Fort
Davidson, at Pilot Knob, one mile from Ironton. This was an
ugly, angular fort, too, surrounded by a deep, wide ditch par-
tially filled with water, almost impossible to get over at any time,
and doubly difficult, certainly, under the fire of artillery and mus-
ketry. General Price's determination to attack was made sud-
denly and against the wishes of his subordinates. Marmaduke,
far east from Fredericktown, was ordered to march west to this
Object Description
| Title | Shelby and his men, or, the war in the west |
| Author | Edwards, John N. (John Newman), 1839-1889 |
| Subject.LCSH |
Shelby, Joseph Orville, 1830-1897 Missouri -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 Arkansas -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 |
| Coverage | United State -- Missouri |
| Source |
Digital reproduction based on reprint edition republished by his wife Jennie Edwards, Kansas City, Mo. : Hudson-Kimberly Pub. Co., 1897 Originally published: Cincinnati, Ohio : Miami printing and publishing, 1867. |
| Language | English |
| Date.Original | 1897 |
| Date.Digital | 2003? |
| Type |
Books and pamphlets |
| Format | JPEG |
| Collection Name | Civil War in Missouri - Monographs |
| Editorial Note | All blank pages have been eliminated |
| Publisher.Digital | University of Missouri Digital Library Production Services |
| Rights | These pages may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Please contact contributing institution for information. |
| Contributing Institution |
University of Missouri--Columbia. Libraries |
| Copy Request | Contact Ellis Library Special Collection, University of Missouri - Columbia at (573) 882-0076 or email: SpecialCollections@missouri.edu |
Description
| Title | civk000028p0318 |
| Description | 318 SHELBY AND HIS MEN; OR, From the ruin and desolation of the railroad, General Shelby made a dash at Potosi, drove its garrison into the court-house, and ordered Collins to unlimber at a distance of three hundred yards. Eight Parrott shells decided the struggle, and up went a white flag, whiter than the faces of twenty-two dead sleeping quietly below. Four hundred Federals surrendered. Shelby camped in and near the town, and after dark the various scouting parties sent out in the morning to work mischief began to return. Lieutenant Selby Plattenburg, with only thirty men, had been up toward Irondale and met a hundred and fifty Federals escorting eleven wagons loaded with supplies. Undeterred by the heavy odds against him, he charged the detachment, dis- persed it, captured forty-two, and returned to camp bringing with him the prisoners and the teams. From every direction they poured in. Officers Tony, Dickey, Adams, Lane, Crispin, Will Moorman, Tom Walton, Will Gregg, Charley Lewis, Frank- lin, Gillett, Marchbanks, Kelly, Sears, Meadows, Coyle, Burt, Redd and Langhorne brought the terrified and surprised militia to General Shelby, until eleven hundred blue-coats were huddled together awaiting, as they fully believed, immediate death. The fine depot at Potosi, with the branch track, cars, and machine- shops, was given to the flames. Vainly awaiting at Potosi, for orders from General Price, General Shelby grew uneasy and res- tive. He had swiftly and decidedly executed the work marked out for him, and had remained twenty-four hours for instructions which were due upon his arrival. Still not hearing, he turned back. toward Pilot Knob, intending, if not communicating with General Price, to march on to that place, which he knew had been attacked. At Caledonia the advance of Marmaduke's divi- sion was met in pursuit of Ewing's forces, which had, by some mistaken generalship, been allowed to escape from Pilot Knob. It seems that General Price moved against Ironton on the morn- ing of October 26th, and drove the Federals into the town, but they evacuated Fort Curtis, an unimportant work between Ar- cadia and Ironton, during the night, and took position in Fort Davidson, at Pilot Knob, one mile from Ironton. This was an ugly, angular fort, too, surrounded by a deep, wide ditch par- tially filled with water, almost impossible to get over at any time, and doubly difficult, certainly, under the fire of artillery and mus- ketry. General Price's determination to attack was made sud- denly and against the wishes of his subordinates. Marmaduke, far east from Fredericktown, was ordered to march west to this |
| Source | Shelby and His Men |
| Type | Books and monographs |
| Format | JPEG |
| Identifier | civk000028p0318.jpg |
| Collection Name | Civil War in Missouri - Monographs |
| Editorial Note | All blank pages have been eliminated |
| Publisher.Digital | University of Missouri Digital Library Production Services |
| Rights | These pages may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Please contact koppk@umsystem.edu for more information. |
| Copy Request | Contact Ellis Library special collection at: SpecialCollections@missouri.edu |
