Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1862, FEB. 324 JAMES A. PRICE. This list is found in the Border Times of March 16, 1866, and it is said Si. Gordon was captured and paroled at Vicksburg. The list had been found but a few days prior to its publication. FEBRUARY. Feb. 1Col. Doubleday. of an Ohio cavalry regiment, with six companies of his men, came to Platte City in December, and left in March, 1862. He was himself a polished gentleman, and his ofcers and men were wellbehaved. They made their quarters in the Dorriss and the Tebbs residences. Perfect quiet reigned during their stay, but many deaths from disease among the soldiers produced uneasiness. I have the names of ten that died, with the date of death, and the company to which each belonged. They were buried in our cemetery, but some were removed. MARCH. J10-rch 6The battle of Pea Ridge cominenc-ed. JI arc-71 7S. A. Gilbert is appointed probate judge. to hold until August, 1865. The county court appointed S. P. S. McCurdy judge of the Weston Court of Coinmotn Pleas in place of James Doniphan, ousted. JAMES A. PRICE. J1 arch 15James A. Price, clerk of the Weston Court of Com- mon Pleas, resigns, a.nd raises a company for the War. It partic- ipated in many campaigns, and Was cut to pieces a.t Shiloh. THE GUERRILLA PARKER AT LIBERTY. .l[u(-h .20Greenup Bird, cashier of the bank at Liberty, under this date, writes to me: Some time since. Lieut. Lankford. of Cameron. established a recruiting office here, and, after enlisting some 15 men, left for Cainei-on to bring more troops. On Friday last. in Lieut. Lank- foi-ds absence. about 1 p. m.. our town was surprised bythe entry of or 30 guerrillas. with Parker. of Jackson County notoriety. a.t their head. Three of them reined up on horseback before the bank door. and questioned me about the whereabouts of the Federals, and how many there were. at the same time presenting pistols at me. (illIl1Sll{lW., one of the recruits. surrendered; but they shot him through the neck, and left him as dead. But he has revived, and may live. We then closed the bank. and the guerrillas com- meneed ring in the street. This was kept up some two hours. I supposed they were shooting down every Union man in town. but I now think they were after the recruits only. Ten of the recruits took refuge in an old frame. near the livery stable, with only nine guns. Parker. after ring at the shed for so-me time from behind houses. sent the recruits a ag of truce. threatening to burn the shed unless they surrendered. They surrendered, and