Letter
Colonel Moonlight to Henry Pearce, September 1, 1864
Paola
Paola, September 1, 1864.
Capt. HENRY PEARCE, Company C, Eleventh Kans. Vol. Cav., Coldwater Grove, Kans. : OAPTAIN: Lieut. Col. P. B. Plumb hzs made the following change in the patrol system in his command on the border, to wit: Two men will leave Aubrey, going south, every ten minutes after 7 p. m. for two hours, making twenty-four men. They will go toa point half way below, on the Aubrey and Coldwater Grove road, and meet the pickets from Coldwater, and then go east or west, as the case may be, to another road, and observe the same order in going back. North of Aubrey the patrol will consist of one man instead of two. You will make the same change in your system of patrols until further orders.
By order of Colonel Moonlight:
IRA I. TABER,
First Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.
First Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Indian Territory, Pt. 1. Location: Paola. Summary: Colonel Moonlight orders Captain Henry Pearce to implement a new border patrol system involving staggered two-man patrols south of Aubrey and single-man patrols north, as directed by Lieutenant Colonel Plumb.
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The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 41, Part 1
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