1861 Nov 29 Wagon Train Captured Near Warrensburg

 NOVEMBER 18, 1861.

Capture of a wagon train near Warrensburg, Mo.

Report of Major L. C. Easton, Quartermaster, U. S. Army.
OFFICE OF THE DEPOT QUARTERMASTER,
Fort Leavenworth, November 29, 1861.

GENERAL: 

Since writing you on the 19th instant, the wagon masters of trains Nos.1 and 2 started from this place to Sedalia, by direction of General Fremont, have returned to this place, and report that "on the 16th November, while enroute from Fort Leavenworth to Sedalia, and within 25 miles of the latter place, having received information that the trains Nos.1 and 2 were about being attacked, J. W. Price, wagon-master of train No. 2, dispatched an express to the commanding officer at Sedalia, asking him for protection. On the 17th of November, he received an order from General Sturgis to return to Fort Leavenworth, which order we immediately obeyed, and on the night of the 18th of November, near Warrensburg, Mo., while on our return to Fort Leavenworth, the trains Nos.1 and 2 were attacked and captured by an armed party of rebels. No protection was sent us from Sedalia, and no protection was given the trains on the route by Colonel Jennison's regiment."
Colonel Jennison's regiment, as I reported to you in my letter of the 19th instant, was detailed to escort these trains to Sedalia.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
L. C. EASTON,
Major and Quartermaster.
General M. C. MEIGS,
Q. M. G. U. S. Army, Washington, D. C.