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Quantrell Defeated

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
September
Year
1862
Copyright
Public Domain
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Kansas City, Sept. 22. The followinc ofiioial report Ims boen jast rpceived frnm tlie expeditión ander ■ Cul. Burris, wlneh has boei: in pursiiit of j Quantreír guerrilla bands since the raid on Olnihe : " Tor fourtcen days our forccs have boen in hot putsiiit of Qaantrel) through Jacksón, Cass, Johnson, and Lafayette ■ couuties, unaLio to force auy engagement other tban occasional pickct bktrinlabes until the 9th, when about fifty of our j cavalry carne up with tlie encmv about ] fivo miles nortli of Picasant Mili. A brisk firo was kept up for ten minutes when ihe o;omy broke und üod in conl'u 0109, leaviiijr two of tbwir dtad oa the field. ru pursued tlicm tivo miles further, wlicn tho euemy cutored tho woods, soattering in all direciions The eneniy s oss is uiiknown. Our loss is one kiliod ; and thi-eo woundcd. We captured Irom tlie eneniy all the trausportation and subiistonce for the expeditión, one hundred stand of anus, 10,000 pouiids of aniinunition, one bundred horges, tivo wagons, a nuniber of tents nnd other camp equipage, and also a considerable quautiiy of dry gouds, groeeries, &e., pieviously stolen froiu the citizens of Olatlie, and the houses, outbuildings, grain, &c, belonging to somo noted muraaderjr, whose proímsoa liad been the favorite hautits of guerrillas, wi-re bunied.

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Old News
Michigan Argus