CIVIL WAR MISSOURI, JULY 18-26, 1863, SCOUT FROM CASSVILLE TO HUNTSVILLE, ARKANSAS

CIVIL WAR MISSOURI, JULY 18-26, 1863, SCOUT FROM CASSVILLE TO HUNTSVILLE, ARKANSAS

JULY 18-26, 1863
SCOUT FROM CASSVILLE TO HUNTSVILLE, ARKANSAS

Report of Col. James W. Johnson, Twenty-sixth Enrolled Missouri Militia (Union), to Brigadier General John McNeil, Commanding District of Southwest Missouri

HEADQUARTERS POST,
Cassville, Mo., July 26, 1863.

GENERAL: A scout under Captain Galloway has just returned from an eight days� scout, in the direction and vicinity of Huntsville, Ark., and to Berryville, killing 6 rebels and capturing 3, chasing pretty much all the guerrillas out of the country for 50 or 60 miles southeast. No force of enemy this side the mountain in that direction. All the small parties seemed to be concentrating in the direction of Ozark, Ark. Nothing of a reliable character as to forces at Fayetteville. I will send in that direction to-morrow.

JAMES W. JOHNSON,
Colonel, Commanding Post

SOURCE: OR, Series I, Volume 22 (Part I), Pages 462-463.

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