Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1863, JAN. 336 THE SITUATION. At New JIarI.:ct. Armstrong, Bishop, Cartwright, Tufts, Wells. .. .1tRi(Ig/cl;/. Gustin, Sayle. JANUARY. THE SITUATION. Jan. 1The year 1863 was shadowed by clouds Without a shaft of sunshine. The bloodtv bann-er of interneoine strife waved angrily over the land. Every available soldier had gone to the front, or was skulking in Northern States. At home We were disarmed, and left a prey to marauding outlaws. Pro-Wling murderers. by day, dressed in Federal uniform and bearing forged military orders, searched houses, barns. and stables for arms; and at night returned as Red-legs to rob and hang the people. The militia were active in suppressing bushWha.ckers, but gave th-emselves no concern about thieves and murderers. I administered on three persons who were murdered by Red-legs. In September the Pawpaws were organized by Col. James H. Moss. No Red-legs thencefortlh troubled us. For. a. time we had peace and securitv. But Calhoun Thornton commenced re cruiting for the South. corrupted the militia, and bushwhackers became as dangerous as the Red-legs had been. The sequel will show the disastrous end of Thornto=ns Work. Courts did little or nothing. Hog cholera prevailed. but the season was propitious. EMANCIPATION. l1-esident Lincoln issued his second proclamation libera.ting slaves in all parts of the United States in open rebellion. The State of Missouri was not included, b11t in a. short time the four- teenth amendment to the Federal Constitution was ratied, and it put an end to slavery throughout the Union. The first snow of the winter fell to-day. Prof. F. G. Gaylord takes the Camden Point Academy. Ebenezer N. O. Clough and Wm. MCN. Clough remove from Parkville to Leavenworth. THOMAS J. WILSON. Jrm. ;2lhon1as J. Vilson having died at Parkville, Chas. S. \ilson administers. Bond. $6.000. Thomas J. was a. business man. and :1 partner of C. I. Summers in the mercantile line. His widow was Eliza. Children: I. A DEl.I.E YVILSON. md Thomas E. Mills. TI. Tl~IO.[A. J. WILSON (ii). md Marcli 19. 1863, Elizabeth Fanhion. After she (lied. he md Tillie J. Vvsong. III. V. \. \ILS(L. was a business man o-f high standing in Ia.rkville. His urbane manners and cordial address were the nntgnings of a. kind heart. After marriage, he Went to