CIVIL WAR MISSOURI, JUNE, 1864, THE EMM ACTIVATED IN NEWTON COUNTY

CIVIL WAR MISSOURI, JUNE, 1864, THE EMM ACTIVATED IN NEWTON COUNTY

JUNE, 1864
THE ENROLLED MISSOURI MILITIA ACTIVATED IN NEWTON COUNTY

Letter from Brigadier General John B. Sanborn, Commanding the District of Southwest Missouri, to Major General Rosecrans, Commanding the Department of the Missouri

SPRINGFIELD, Mo., June 17, 1864.

Major-General ROSECRANS:

I respectfully request that you request His Excellency Governor Hall forthwith to call into active service the entire militia force of Dade, Cedar, Vernon, Boston, Jasper, and Newton Counties for the period of sixty days unless sooner relieved, with directions for the troops of each county to rendezvous at the county seat of their respective counties, and report to Brigadier-General Holland for orders. This request is made for the following reasons, viz: First. These counties are being devastated by marauding bands of guerrillas, and the present military force is inadequate to prevent these bands from murdering many Union men and destroying much property. Second. Large numbers of troops from the rebel army are constantly moving north through this section of the State, and cannot be checked and driven back by the present military force.

JOHN B. SANBORN
Brigadier-General, Commanding.

SOURCE: OR, Series I, Volume 34 (Part IV), Pages 433-434.

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