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In this chapter, John Russell Kelso gives an account of the scouting and recruiting that he had carried out between February and May 1862. Near the close of February 1862, Kelso left the Union Army about four miles south of Bentonville and headed to Missouri. After eluding a party of about fifteen rebel horsemen on his way, Kelso turned to a place called King's Prairie where a number of Union men had organized themselves into a kind of independent military company. At Springfield, Kelso heard the news of the Battle of Pea Ridge. On March 15, he filled his appointment at King's Prairie and enrolled more than thirty recruits for a scouting mission. They were then directed by Lieut. Col. James K. Mills to enter the Fourteenth M. S. M. Cavalry, which was then being formed by Col. John M. Richardson. They were also ordered to Linn Creek and returned to Springfield about May 20. |
