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A Yankee Trick in Missouri.The following is told of Major Hovey, ofthe Twenty-Fourth Indiana regiment, in connection with Gen. Pope’s recent exploits in Missouri;While at some point near Clinton, Major Hovey took 100 men, pot them in wagons, so as to hide them from view, and thou putting a few jUfcfljers to walk, as it guarding the trK^lie started out. Secession, shotgun in band, hiding in the brush, saw the cortege, and supposed it a Federal wag-on train, poorly guarded, and benclt;* an eAsy as well as legitimate prize. Reasoning thus, Secession walked from the brush, presented its shot-gun, and demanded a snr. render—which demand was instantly met by fifty men tising from the wagons, pre* sentin^ a row of glittering muskets, And requesting a similar favor of astonished and now mortified Secession. Secession generally complied, and worked off its ill-huraor by cursing such “mean Yankee tricks,” i.n known to all honorable warfare, and un. | worthy all chivalrous hearts. In this way many a petulant rebel wa» confounded, aud I ] two cases, where fight was preferred rather surrender, two rebel sons of chivalry bit the dust, from the effects of Minie bullets which left ennnister-jikn auger hole* clear through their heads. Before bis return, Haj »r Hovey captured a large number of prisoners, and burnt one mill which was grinding for Price.•4M
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Rochester Mercury
Rochester, Indiana, US
Thu, Jan 09, 1862
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