Price, Sterling, 1809-1867 to Thomas C. Reynolds
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05014 Author/Creator: Price, Sterling, 1809-1867 Place Written: Camden, Arkansas Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 22 July 1864 Pagination: Order a Copy
Confederate General Price replies to a letter from Reynolds, Governor of Missouri, in which Reynolds asked whether Price would command an expedition into Missouri. Writes, "I consider such an expedition practicable, and in the contingency you suggest desirable and important." Price agrees to take command of the expedition if General Smith (possibly Edmund Kirby Smith) does not intend on taking possession of the Arkansas Valley. Transmits a copy of the St. Louis Democrat (not included) reporting Confederate possession of Platte City, Missouri. Of the possession, writes "It is significant that a company of State Troops sent to defend Platte City, went over in a body with their arms to the Confederates. My opinion is that the people of Missouri are ready for a general uprising and that the time was never more propitious for an advance of our forces into Missouri." Writes that Senator Mitchell (possibly Charles B. Mitchel, Confederate Senator of Arkansas) informed him that President Jefferson Davis encouraged a military advance into Missouri. Assumes that reports of an expedition led by Union General Edward R. S. Canby to penetrate the Trans-Mississippi Department are false, intended to prevent an advance into Missouri. Docketed by Reynolds. One black and white bust engraving of Sterling Price included.
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