CIVIL WAR MISSOURI, JULY 27, 1863, AFFAIR NEAR CASSVILLE

CIVIL WAR MISSOURI, JULY 27, 1863, AFFAIR NEAR CASSVILLE

JULY 27, 1863
AFFAIR NEAR CASSVILLE

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 28, 1863.

GENERAL: A scout of Second Infantry, headed by one Caleb Baker, on the 27th, encountered about 20 rebels, some 25 miles southeast of this place, killing 1 captain, 3 men, and wounding 4. Our loss is 3 missing. Some arms were captured also.

JAMES W. JOHNSON,
Colonel, Commanding Post

SOURCE: OR, Series I, Volume 22 (Part I), Page 463.

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