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SOUTHERN HISTORICAL SOCIETY PAPERS
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL SOCIETY PAPERS


Vol. VII.
Richmond, Va., May, 1879.
No. 5.


The Missouri Campaign of 1864—Report of General Stirling Price.

[We have been very anxious to publish reports of the campaign in the Trans-Mississippi department, and are glad to be able to give the following report of General Price's operations in 1864, which was not published by the Confederate Government. It will be read with great interest not only by those who served with that gallant army but by all who desire to know the truth concerning this important campaign.]

Shreveport, La.

Brigadier-General W. R. Boggs, Chief of Staff:

General—I have the honor to make the following report of my operations in the late expedition to Missouri. I regret to state that the report is meagre and incomplete, for the reason that Major-General Marmaduke and Brigadier-General Cabell, who bore so honorable and conspicuous a share in the greater part of the expedition, were captured before its close and are prisoners in the hands of the enemy; whilst Major-General Fagan, who commanded the Arkansas troops, composing a large part of the forces engaged, has as yet been unable to make any report, nor have any been received from the subordinate commanders. In conformity with the letter