Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1864, MARCH. 360 CALHOUN THORNTON. Alexander .I(-Alexander having died, F. M. McA1exander administered. Bond, $1,600. March 8The county court (Layton) refuses to issue the re- maining bonds subscribed to the Parkville & G. R. Railroad Iompany. Jlarc-I2 21Greneral Guitar and Colonels Williams and Jacob- son, of General Rosecrans staff, pass through Platte City. The store of F. M. Tufts a.nd F. L. Miller having been robbed, as was charged, by bushwhackers, the loss was taxed on the disloyal farmers residing near New Market. and J. L. Dodson, J. B. Dean, G. V. Anderson, I. T. Lewis, and Rufus Maget were required to pay the damage. CALHOUN THORNTON. J1 arch 2;2It is becoming daily more evident that emissaries from the South are recruiting in Platte County, and that the Pa.Wpaws" are disloyal. Small bands of bushwhackers mani- fest themselves at one place today and at another to-morrow. They operate where they are known, and some offense against Union me11 compromises them, so that they have to enlist in the Southern army for safety. The Pawpaws generally fell into the snare, and when danger threatened, they had to go south. Thornton was the active spirit in tempting the youth of our county. JOHN AND SAMUEL WINSTON. Early in March Capt. Lewis A. Ford, commanding at Park- Ville, sent a squad of soldiers into the Vinston neighborhood, and Capt. Samuel Winston was arrested. He was an officer of the Southern army, and was placed under a $25,000 bond for his good conduct. Inquiry and search were made, Without avail, for his brother. Col. John H. Winston, and it was given out that he was not in the county; but in truth Col. Winsto-n was at home. under orders from Gen. S. Price. to: recruit a regiment from north- western Missouri. His policy Was to foment discontent in the militia, and to get them t-o manifest disloyalty, so that they would have to nd safety by going South. C-ol. Winston, fearing arrest and the summary justice dealt out to spies, dressed in the uniform of a Confederate colonel. On the 22d of March a. squad of United States troops passed tlu-ough Platte Pity. going east. and in an hour returned with (nl. Vinston as their prisoner. They had found him at his home. in his uniform. cove-ml by a bed. He was conned in military prisons until the close of the war. His brother Samuel shared his fate. lhvy V l( in constant apprehension of death. until the return of peace.