Clinton B. Fisk to Bonn, September 2, 1864

Major Bonn, Aide-de-Camp : _ Catherwood is not in my district. He is now in Saint Louis recruiting. I have only a portion of his regiment, under Major King, in Clay County, where they are much needed, although I propose sending them to Boone County for a few days. We need 1,500 good men in that region forthwith. Chariton, Howard, Randolph, Audrain, and Monroe Counties have at least 1,500 bushmen. The approaching draft is steadily [increasing] the ‘”‘corps de brush” from a class of citizens who have never before openly resisted the Government, and in the counties above named disloyalty has never been so rampant as just now, nor have loyalists ever before been so dispirited. That entire region needs a severe lesson, and by the grace of God they shall have it if I can get the men, arms, and horses for the companies.

C. B. FISK,