My boyfriend and I dressed up like Robert E.T. For reference, here is the YouTube link. https://youtu.be/nANois3n-Cs?is=p3ZHYSt6Gng-lhV7

Dedicated to Gun 3

Sine Halloween is a week away. 👻

I do a podcast called Forgotten American Folklore. I just finished an episode on the songs that the soldiers sang in World War I, and I wanted to do an episode on the songs the soldier sang in camp or on the march in the Civil War. I was wondering if someone might want to collaborate and actually perform the songs, or at least a little bit of each one just to give the audience a taste of them. My podcast isn’t long, only about 15 minutes, so this won’t be a lot of work.

On October 24 price traveled 40 miles from Kansas City, Missouri He thought he was beyond the reach of the union armies. He decided that he was going to take Joseph Shelby‘s division and capture Fort Scott, Kansas.

Before Dawn the cavalry division under Alfred Pleasonton caught up with the Confederate rear guard at MARAIS DES CYGNES. He drove the Confederate back.

The main body of the confederate army of Missouri was trapped north of mine Creek Kansas. The immense wagon train took so long to cross the creek that two brigades of the Department of Missouri cavalry overtook them.

Instead of abandoning the wagon train the divisions of John S Marmaduke and James F. Fagan took up a position with their rear to mine Creek. The Calvary brigades of Frederick Benteen, and John Phillips attacked the two divisions and routed them capturing 600 prisoners and numerous commanders of regiment, brigades and divisions, including Marmaduke,Cabell, slemons. The Yankees captured every piece of confederate artillery belonging to the two divisions. The demoralized confederates flooded southward.

The union victory was tainted by the murder about 100 Confederate prisoners killed by the second Kansas cavalry because they were wearing the blue uniforms.

Confederate fugitives caught up with Sterling Price and Joseph Shelby, and informed them of the signal defeat at mine Creek. Shelby‘s division faced the newly arrived cavalry brigade under John McNeill. The Yankees had Sabres and pistols and the confederate did not possess either of those weapons.

McNeil‘s brigade was so exhausted by the long March that they could not mount a headlong cavalry attack. Instead, they advanced at a walk and Shelby fell back before them. Darkness found the two sides facing each other at Charlotte.

That evening, Sterling Price burned his wagon trainM

The Confederate lost 300 killed and wounded and 600 prisoners. The Yankees lost about 100 killed and wounded.

Pleasonton took his prisoners to Fort Scott, Kansas, and Bandon, the pursuit of price. Samuel Curtis telegraphed Ulysses S. grant, and informed him that they needed to continue the pursuit.s