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Re: There were some bad men in Missoura...
" Private Thodore Harrison of Company G acted up in another way. At a dress parade in Union City January 5 (1863), he persisted in jabbering, slouching , and making faces at officers. In short, teddy was "asking for it." Blackburn arresting him, warned Ted he would pay for this horseplay by "marking time" all morning the next day. Harrison, vowing he would see Blackburn "in Hell he would mark time," provoked the company commander into preferring charges. A court headed by Captain Pearce pronounced Harrison guilty of "conduct prejudicial" and "using disrespectful language to superior officers." His payoff was a three-day visit to the guardhouse and a daily march to a beating drum "along the front of the Regiment upon Parade," bearing a "Disobedience of Orders" placard." The Twenty-First Missouri Leslie Anders pg. 123
This next account while on veteran furlough.
"Knox county boys could not quite keep their minds off politics either. True enough, they had different ways of expressing themselves--ways suited to the brush country of northeastern Missouri. Just to the soutwest Colony lived a posperous farmer, RIce McFadden, whose Southern sympathies scandalized the vacationing warriors. This was no mere persecution of opinion, for McFadden had been with Green at Athens and thereafter had done a stint in rebel gray. However, the Confederacy's recent distress had a rather chastened McFadden, and he returned to "loyalty" by way of oath. As Moore's boys saw things, McFadden had helped "burn out" their folks in 1861, and it was time to return the favor. Several warned the hated neighbor to "get gone" while they were in the area. When the gentleman did not "regard" their threats, the veterans decided it was time to burn him out--possibly shoot him on sight. On April 14 a party showed up for the "housewarming." The proprietor eluded them, with only Henry Hubble catching a glimpse of him before he took cover. But wherever McFadden hid, he could see a column of smoke towering over the clearing where his house had stood." Aders pg. 168
Just a reminder this is Missouri. The war in Missouri was nothing like the war out east. Different rules played out here.
" Private Thodore Harrison of Company G acted up in another way. At a dress parade in Union City January 5 (1863), he persisted in jabbering, slouching , and making faces at officers. In short, teddy was "asking for it." Blackburn arresting him, warned Ted he would pay for this horseplay by "marking time" all morning the next day. Harrison, vowing he would see Blackburn "in Hell he would mark time," provoked the company commander into preferring charges. A court headed by Captain Pearce pronounced Harrison guilty of "conduct prejudicial" and "using disrespectful language to superior officers." His payoff was a three-day visit to the guardhouse and a daily march to a beating drum "along the front of the Regiment upon Parade," bearing a "Disobedience of Orders" placard." The Twenty-First Missouri Leslie Anders pg. 123
This next account while on veteran furlough.
"Knox county boys could not quite keep their minds off politics either. True enough, they had different ways of expressing themselves--ways suited to the brush country of northeastern Missouri. Just to the soutwest Colony lived a posperous farmer, RIce McFadden, whose Southern sympathies scandalized the vacationing warriors. This was no mere persecution of opinion, for McFadden had been with Green at Athens and thereafter had done a stint in rebel gray. However, the Confederacy's recent distress had a rather chastened McFadden, and he returned to "loyalty" by way of oath. As Moore's boys saw things, McFadden had helped "burn out" their folks in 1861, and it was time to return the favor. Several warned the hated neighbor to "get gone" while they were in the area. When the gentleman did not "regard" their threats, the veterans decided it was time to burn him out--possibly shoot him on sight. On April 14 a party showed up for the "housewarming." The proprietor eluded them, with only Henry Hubble catching a glimpse of him before he took cover. But wherever McFadden hid, he could see a column of smoke towering over the clearing where his house had stood." Aders pg. 168
Just a reminder this is Missouri. The war in Missouri was nothing like the war out east. Different rules played out here.
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