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Newspaper
Rolla Express
Location
Rolla, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1861
Page
2
Proceedings of a Court Martial held at this Camp on Sept. 6 1861 are published with the date Sept 7 61. The case UG 8 A versus Matthew C Hare appears in the record. Adjutant W A Scott signs the notice through editor Rolla Express.
The piece weighs the uncertain fate of Missouri during the Civil War era. It argues events in Vernon and nearby counties shifted balance, hindering Union reinforcements and potentially prolonging conflict. It notes Gen. Lyon’s delays, the pursuit by Gov. Jackson, and the uncertain outcome of the next two months on Missouri’s wartime future.
A visitor from Dade county says Raines and Price were encamped about a mile from Stockton Cedar county ten days ago, with his father passing through the camp. He knows nothing of a reported fight between Raines and Montgomery.
Through returning gentlemen from Springfield we learn that the arch traitor Claib Jackson is certainly in Springfield. A Kansas boy declares his determination to reenlist as about 100 wounded soldiers arrived from Springfield and were taken to St. Louis day before yesterday.
A train was held for hours yesterday causing fears of an incident. It resumed at night carrying seventy five or eighty baggage mules. Rebels reportedly exacted vengeance on Judge Orr wrecking his home. The judge fled after army withdrawal leaving a sick family behind. Military arrest: Wm H Nelson detained Wednesday evening for delivering information to the enemy. He admits Arkansas Knox County origin and travel via Washington and St. Louis. He possessed Confederate army shirts and was moved to the Military Prison.
A traveler reports a bridge crash on the Hannibal and St Joseph Railroad over the Little Platte Creek about fifteen miles from St Joseph. The westbound train fell twenty feet, cars piled and crushed, with twenty killed and many wounded. Names of victims not recovered.
An excerpt recounts horror at a burned bridge believed sabotaged by unknown assailants and threads of civil strife through early federal history. It cites eleven federal resistance attempts, from Shays’ Rebellion to Missouri statehood contention, plus a note on Arsenal move and depredations in Wacled e County involving Captain Taleofaro and Johnson’s band.
Biographical sketch traces Jefferson Davis from birth in 1808 Kentucky to West Point, early military service and Black Hawk War, leadership in Mexican War, Mississippi politics as U S Senator, Governor candidate defeat, and roles as Secretary of War and Senator. Notes his defense of slavery, states rights, and push for western railroad routes.
The commander of the western division issues martial law across Missouri with harsh penalties for rebels death without clergy confiscation of property and freeing slaves. The measure targets rebels while noting limited slave freeing due to owners moving slaves beyond state bounds and a possible law restricting free negroes.
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