Schnabel's cavalrymen suprise Missouri Home Guards

Schnabel's cavalrymen suprise Missouri Home Guards

14 years ago By Adam David Gibbons
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Bennett’s Mills, MO., 6:30 a.m—Three hundred and fifty Confederate cavalrymen from Lt. Col. John Schnabel’s battalion surprise 38 men of the Missouri Home Guards in camp, killing three.

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