CIVIL WAR MISSOURI, SKIRMISH BURKHART PRAIRIE, NEWTON COUNTY
 
 
FEBRUARY 1, 1863
SKIRMISH ON BURKHART PRAIRIE

Excerpt from a book by Wiley Britton

On the first instant [February], a detachment from the command at Neosho had a skirmish with a company of guerillas on Burkhart prairie, twelve miles north-west of that post, and had two men badly wounded, without inflicting any loss on the enemy as far as is known.  The commanding officer of the post, Major Foreman, immediately sent out a larger force, about a hundred men, to the vicinity where the skirmish took place, but it returned to its station after having captured one wagon loaded with plunder, and having chased the enemy several miles through the woods.

SOURCE:  Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863 (1882), page 127.

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