The Battle of Lexington, Fought in and Around the City of Lexington, Missouri, on September 18th, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Battle of Lexington, Fought in and Around the City of Lexington, Missouri, on September 18th, Vol. 1 The first mistake (and a fatal one) was that Col. Marshall´s cavalry, which had not received its carbines, being armed only with sabres and some old holster pistols, was not sent over the river by the boats yet under our control. It was those horses, the finest I ever saw together - owned by the men who rode them that exhausted our water supply and weakened our lines of defense, necessarily extended to protect them. The fighting began in earnest on the 12th, the first severe firing being in what was called "the fight in the lane." As the Union force was under my own command I can speak more knowingly. Col. Mulligan is reported as saying there were "six companies of Missourians and calvary met them in Lexington cemetery, and the fight raged furiously over the dead." There were no cavalry present in the fighting. Gen. Price refers to it as "the enemy attempted to make a stand." The facts were that his whole army was moving from the fair grounds, where they had camped, and the small force in the lane held them in check by an effective fire until the men in the earthworks had rallied and prevented an assault upon our position. For nine days the investment lasted with but little respite for those within the Union works. The vastly superior numbers of the besiegers rendered the vigilance of the small force of the besieged constant. Col. Mulligan gives the troops under his command at 2,700, and over 700 of these were the unarmed cavalry referred to. The effective fighting men were not over 2, 000. An acquaintance who called to see me the morning after the surrender said that to Gen. Price´s army there had that day been issued 30,000 rations. Of course, these were not all efficient soldiers, but as most of the able-bodied men of that portion of Missouri were there, and they all had something to shoot with, the statement was a very reasonable and, no doubt, truthful one. Considering, as Gen. Price states, that the surrender was preceded by "fifty-two hours of continuous firing," the fact, in view of the numbers and condition of the Union soldiers, discloses a courage, fortitude and endurance that will compare with any incident of the war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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