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Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field

CHAPTER II
8/23

Upward of thirty persons were killed or wounded in the affair.

With the exception of this unhappy collision, the capture was bloodless.
General Harney arrived at St.Louis soon after this event, and assumed command in Missouri.

The agreement known as "the Price-Harney truce" was immediately made.

Under an assurance from Governor Jackson that the State troops should be disbanded, General Harney promised that no hostilities should be undertaken, and attempted to cause the dispersal of the Union volunteers.

The status of the latter had been so fixed that General Harney was not empowered to disarm them, and he so informed, the State authorities.


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