[Gutenberg 51118] • A History of Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas / Being an Account of the Early Settlements, the Civil War, the Ku-Klux, and Times of Peace by Monks, William -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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CONTENTS Introduction. EARLY SETTLEMENTS.

Dow Bryant and a Gallon of Whisky The Tutt and Evert War. Indians Chase a Sheriff Ten Miles. How a Mob Was Prevented Religion and Politics.

MISSOURI AND THE CIVIL WAR.

A Big Confederate Meeting at West Plains. McBride Establishes Military Law. General Lyons Drives Rebels from Rolla. The Testing of Loyal Hearts. Rebels Defeated in Douglas County. Rebels Capture Col. Monks. "Billy, You Ought Not to be So Saucy." Sold as a Beef Cow. The Confederate Army or Hell. In Camp at Yellville. Makes His Escape. Arrives at Springfield. General Lyon Killed at Wilson Creek. Their Wives and Other Women Bury Them. A General Jackson Soldier Shot Down. Benjamin Alsup Taken to Little Rock. Loyal Women Driven From Their Homes. Establishing a Federal Post at West Plains. Lusk Sees Some Lopeared Dutch. Goes to Washington City. The Delegation Meets the President. Incidents of 1863. Court-Martialed and Shot. How Received by the Batesville Ladies. If You Will Grease and Butter Him. Give an Oyster Supper Another Meeting With Captain Forshee Murdering Federal Soldiers. A Rebel Raid. Rescuing Union Families. General Price's Raid. Capt. Monks Establishes a Post at Licking. Skirmishes with the Rebels. Ridding the Country of Bushwhackers. Battle at Mammoth Spring. "Uncle Tommy" and His Crutches. Disposing of Union Men. Union Supplies Captured by Rebels. Bravery of Captain Alsup. Bushwhacking in Howell County. Colonel Freeman's Second Raid. Col. Monks Enforces the Civil Law. Outlaw Rule in Oregon and Shannon. Colonel Monks Commissioned by the Governor.

REMINISCENCES.

Has Known Col. Monks Thirty Years. Dr. Dixon's Long Acquaintance. Union Woman Leaves Arkansas for Missouri. Union Men Killed in Izard County, Ark.

THE KUKLUX

Henry Dixon Green.

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