E. C. Catherwood to Brigadier-General LoAN, January 19, 1863
Brigadier-General LoAN, Commanding District of Central Missouri :
GENERAL: Quantrill’s band has again returned, said to number in all from 200 to 500 men. Une squad of 50,.in passing north near Germantown, captured 1 lieutenant and 4 men of the Enrolled Missouri Militia from that post. We captured one of the men. He stated that he belonged to Quantrill’s original band, and that they had come up to winter. I sent out this morning 125 men in search of a band said to have camped at head of Davis’ Creek yesterday.
Major Penney has shipped me 13,000 instead of 35,000 rounds of ammunition. Can I get*heremainder? Please let me know what conclusion you have come to in reference to moving the two companies at Calhoun.
very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Colonel, Commanding Post.
JANUARY 19, 1863.
Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring, That
are hereby tendered, to our brave soldiers and their gallant officers for
the unfading laurels won on so many bloody fields of battle, in Kansas,
Missouri, the Indian Nation, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi,