Brother of Kit Carson
Son of Lindsey Carson & Rebecca Robinson
DAR stone
Suggested edit: SARSHALL CARSON
"Sashwell (Sarshall) Carson, brother of "Kit Carson, was killed by bushwhackers near his farm a few miles north of Boonsboro on May 20,1864. Mrs. Carson was visiting at a neighbor's and seeing Sashwell coming to take her back home, went down the road to meet him. A band of bushwhackers intercepted him, held Mrs. Carson and shot him dead right before her eyes. Mrs. Carson and her 12-year old son brought the body home in an ox-drawn wagon. He is buried on the old Carson family home grounds near Boonsboro.' (Bicentennial Boonslick History, compiled and edited by Lyn McDaniel, Boonslick Historical Society, 1976, p. 96; see also Howard County Cemetery Records, Karen Boggs and Louise Coutts, 1994, P. 89)The perpetrators of the above incident were not Confederate bushwhackers, but rather some people connected with a notorious Union 'guerrilla' named Harry Truman who passed through central Missouri in May and June of 1864 killing and plundering. A number of communications both by and about Truman (often referred to simply as 'H.T.') appear in the OR, Vol. 34 (4), indicating that he was apparently acting as a kind of spy and "bushwhacker hunter," sometimes alone, and sometimes with an indeterminate group of men on orders from the Provost Marshal-General in St. Louis. Several commanders in the field were, however, less than pleased with Truman's conduct and activities. Brig. Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, Union Commander of the District of North Missouri, complains about him to Col. O.D. Greene, Assistant Adjutant General, St. Louis, on June 8,1864 (OR, Vol. 34,141, P. 270), asking Greene to 'immediately order H.T. to Saint Louis and keep him there." Fisk notes that Truman 'goes about with his most villainous conduct regardless of anybody,' arid that 'he is plundering the best men in North Missouri, insults and abuses women, travels in the most public thoroughfares in a state of beastly intoxication, with a notorious prostitute in company with him, and is guilty of all the crimes that I, as an officer of the Government, am under obligation to put down.'A letter from W.A. Hall to General Rosecrans on June 12,1864 (OR, 34 [4t p. 324) says that 'a number of men, between 30 and 40, under an officer whose name is said to be Truman, have been in ... [Chariton County] and have killed a number of citizens." Hall says that Truman's actions have excited a "reign of terror...extending from that county to the adjoining counties,' and that 'I fear much that men driven to desperation will join the bushwhackers in self-defense." Hall also says that "no one seems to know where these men are from or who are,' but that his suspicion is 'that they may be what are called Red Legs, from Kansas." John Newman Edwards, in Noted Guerrillas or The Warfare of the Border( St. Louis,1877; reprinted 1976 by Moriningside Bookshop, Dayton, Ohio), makes this same assumption about Truman (P. 307). In 1864," Edwards says, 'a Kansas Red Leg Captain named Truman, passed through Howard like a scourge, cutting, slashing, hanging, and shooting. In Boonslick township he killed Sashet (sic] Carson, Oliver Rose, Tazewell Jones, John Stepp, John T. Marshall and John Cooper, all worthy and peaceful citizens. Others were killed in various parts of the county and the Guerrillas grew in proportion as the people were preyed upon.' Truman was eventually arrested by Fisk, who returned a great deal of his plunder. He was put on trial in St. Joseph (see Columbia Missouri Statesman, July 15,1864, p. 2, col. 5) but was never convicted of any crimes because after several would-be witnesses were murdered, the remainder would not testify against him. Michael Fellman makes reference to the activities of Truman in Inside War. The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri the American Civil War (Oxford University
Contributor: janicet (47361005)
Son of Lindsey Carson & Rebecca Robinson
DAR stone
Suggested edit: SARSHALL CARSON
"Sashwell (Sarshall) Carson, brother of "Kit Carson, was killed by bushwhackers near his farm a few miles north of Boonsboro on May 20,1864. Mrs. Carson was visiting at a neighbor's and seeing Sashwell coming to take her back home, went down the road to meet him. A band of bushwhackers intercepted him, held Mrs. Carson and shot him dead right before her eyes. Mrs. Carson and her 12-year old son brought the body home in an ox-drawn wagon. He is buried on the old Carson family home grounds near Boonsboro.' (Bicentennial Boonslick History, compiled and edited by Lyn McDaniel, Boonslick Historical Society, 1976, p. 96; see also Howard County Cemetery Records, Karen Boggs and Louise Coutts, 1994, P. 89)The perpetrators of the above incident were not Confederate bushwhackers, but rather some people connected with a notorious Union 'guerrilla' named Harry Truman who passed through central Missouri in May and June of 1864 killing and plundering. A number of communications both by and about Truman (often referred to simply as 'H.T.') appear in the OR, Vol. 34 (4), indicating that he was apparently acting as a kind of spy and "bushwhacker hunter," sometimes alone, and sometimes with an indeterminate group of men on orders from the Provost Marshal-General in St. Louis. Several commanders in the field were, however, less than pleased with Truman's conduct and activities. Brig. Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, Union Commander of the District of North Missouri, complains about him to Col. O.D. Greene, Assistant Adjutant General, St. Louis, on June 8,1864 (OR, Vol. 34,141, P. 270), asking Greene to 'immediately order H.T. to Saint Louis and keep him there." Fisk notes that Truman 'goes about with his most villainous conduct regardless of anybody,' arid that 'he is plundering the best men in North Missouri, insults and abuses women, travels in the most public thoroughfares in a state of beastly intoxication, with a notorious prostitute in company with him, and is guilty of all the crimes that I, as an officer of the Government, am under obligation to put down.'A letter from W.A. Hall to General Rosecrans on June 12,1864 (OR, 34 [4t p. 324) says that 'a number of men, between 30 and 40, under an officer whose name is said to be Truman, have been in ... [Chariton County] and have killed a number of citizens." Hall says that Truman's actions have excited a "reign of terror...extending from that county to the adjoining counties,' and that 'I fear much that men driven to desperation will join the bushwhackers in self-defense." Hall also says that "no one seems to know where these men are from or who are,' but that his suspicion is 'that they may be what are called Red Legs, from Kansas." John Newman Edwards, in Noted Guerrillas or The Warfare of the Border( St. Louis,1877; reprinted 1976 by Moriningside Bookshop, Dayton, Ohio), makes this same assumption about Truman (P. 307). In 1864," Edwards says, 'a Kansas Red Leg Captain named Truman, passed through Howard like a scourge, cutting, slashing, hanging, and shooting. In Boonslick township he killed Sashet (sic] Carson, Oliver Rose, Tazewell Jones, John Stepp, John T. Marshall and John Cooper, all worthy and peaceful citizens. Others were killed in various parts of the county and the Guerrillas grew in proportion as the people were preyed upon.' Truman was eventually arrested by Fisk, who returned a great deal of his plunder. He was put on trial in St. Joseph (see Columbia Missouri Statesman, July 15,1864, p. 2, col. 5) but was never convicted of any crimes because after several would-be witnesses were murdered, the remainder would not testify against him. Michael Fellman makes reference to the activities of Truman in Inside War. The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri the American Civil War (Oxford University
Contributor: janicet (47361005)
Brother of Kit Carson
Son of Lindsey Carson & Rebecca Robinson
DAR stone
Suggested edit: SARSHALL CARSON
"Sashwell (Sarshall) Carson, brother of "Kit Carson, was killed by bushwhackers near his farm a few miles north of Boonsboro on May 20,1864. Mrs. Carson was visiting at a neighbor's and seeing Sashwell coming to take her back home, went down the road to meet him. A band of bushwhackers intercepted him, held Mrs. Carson and shot him dead right before her eyes. Mrs. Carson and her 12-year old son brought the body home in an ox-drawn wagon. He is buried on the old Carson family home grounds near Boonsboro.' (Bicentennial Boonslick History, compiled and edited by Lyn McDaniel, Boonslick Historical Society, 1976, p. 96; see also Howard County Cemetery Records, Karen Boggs and Louise Coutts, 1994, P. 89)The perpetrators of the above incident were not Confederate bushwhackers, but rather some people connected with a notorious Union 'guerrilla' named Harry Truman who passed through central Missouri in May and June of 1864 killing and plundering. A number of communications both by and about Truman (often referred to simply as 'H.T.') appear in the OR, Vol. 34 (4), indicating that he was apparently acting as a kind of spy and "bushwhacker hunter," sometimes alone, and sometimes with an indeterminate group of men on orders from the Provost Marshal-General in St. Louis. Several commanders in the field were, however, less than pleased with Truman's conduct and activities. Brig. Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, Union Commander of the District of North Missouri, complains about him to Col. O.D. Greene, Assistant Adjutant General, St. Louis, on June 8,1864 (OR, Vol. 34,141, P. 270), asking Greene to 'immediately order H.T. to Saint Louis and keep him there." Fisk notes that Truman 'goes about with his most villainous conduct regardless of anybody,' arid that 'he is plundering the best men in North Missouri, insults and abuses women, travels in the most public thoroughfares in a state of beastly intoxication, with a notorious prostitute in company with him, and is guilty of all the crimes that I, as an officer of the Government, am under obligation to put down.'A letter from W.A. Hall to General Rosecrans on June 12,1864 (OR, 34 [4t p. 324) says that 'a number of men, between 30 and 40, under an officer whose name is said to be Truman, have been in ... [Chariton County] and have killed a number of citizens." Hall says that Truman's actions have excited a "reign of terror...extending from that county to the adjoining counties,' and that 'I fear much that men driven to desperation will join the bushwhackers in self-defense." Hall also says that "no one seems to know where these men are from or who are,' but that his suspicion is 'that they may be what are called Red Legs, from Kansas." John Newman Edwards, in Noted Guerrillas or The Warfare of the Border( St. Louis,1877; reprinted 1976 by Moriningside Bookshop, Dayton, Ohio), makes this same assumption about Truman (P. 307). In 1864," Edwards says, 'a Kansas Red Leg Captain named Truman, passed through Howard like a scourge, cutting, slashing, hanging, and shooting. In Boonslick township he killed Sashet (sic] Carson, Oliver Rose, Tazewell Jones, John Stepp, John T. Marshall and John Cooper, all worthy and peaceful citizens. Others were killed in various parts of the county and the Guerrillas grew in proportion as the people were preyed upon.' Truman was eventually arrested by Fisk, who returned a great deal of his plunder. He was put on trial in St. Joseph (see Columbia Missouri Statesman, July 15,1864, p. 2, col. 5) but was never convicted of any crimes because after several would-be witnesses were murdered, the remainder would not testify against him. Michael Fellman makes reference to the activities of Truman in Inside War. The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri the American Civil War (Oxford University
Contributor: janicet (47361005)
Son of Lindsey Carson & Rebecca Robinson
DAR stone
Suggested edit: SARSHALL CARSON
"Sashwell (Sarshall) Carson, brother of "Kit Carson, was killed by bushwhackers near his farm a few miles north of Boonsboro on May 20,1864. Mrs. Carson was visiting at a neighbor's and seeing Sashwell coming to take her back home, went down the road to meet him. A band of bushwhackers intercepted him, held Mrs. Carson and shot him dead right before her eyes. Mrs. Carson and her 12-year old son brought the body home in an ox-drawn wagon. He is buried on the old Carson family home grounds near Boonsboro.' (Bicentennial Boonslick History, compiled and edited by Lyn McDaniel, Boonslick Historical Society, 1976, p. 96; see also Howard County Cemetery Records, Karen Boggs and Louise Coutts, 1994, P. 89)The perpetrators of the above incident were not Confederate bushwhackers, but rather some people connected with a notorious Union 'guerrilla' named Harry Truman who passed through central Missouri in May and June of 1864 killing and plundering. A number of communications both by and about Truman (often referred to simply as 'H.T.') appear in the OR, Vol. 34 (4), indicating that he was apparently acting as a kind of spy and "bushwhacker hunter," sometimes alone, and sometimes with an indeterminate group of men on orders from the Provost Marshal-General in St. Louis. Several commanders in the field were, however, less than pleased with Truman's conduct and activities. Brig. Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, Union Commander of the District of North Missouri, complains about him to Col. O.D. Greene, Assistant Adjutant General, St. Louis, on June 8,1864 (OR, Vol. 34,141, P. 270), asking Greene to 'immediately order H.T. to Saint Louis and keep him there." Fisk notes that Truman 'goes about with his most villainous conduct regardless of anybody,' arid that 'he is plundering the best men in North Missouri, insults and abuses women, travels in the most public thoroughfares in a state of beastly intoxication, with a notorious prostitute in company with him, and is guilty of all the crimes that I, as an officer of the Government, am under obligation to put down.'A letter from W.A. Hall to General Rosecrans on June 12,1864 (OR, 34 [4t p. 324) says that 'a number of men, between 30 and 40, under an officer whose name is said to be Truman, have been in ... [Chariton County] and have killed a number of citizens." Hall says that Truman's actions have excited a "reign of terror...extending from that county to the adjoining counties,' and that 'I fear much that men driven to desperation will join the bushwhackers in self-defense." Hall also says that "no one seems to know where these men are from or who are,' but that his suspicion is 'that they may be what are called Red Legs, from Kansas." John Newman Edwards, in Noted Guerrillas or The Warfare of the Border( St. Louis,1877; reprinted 1976 by Moriningside Bookshop, Dayton, Ohio), makes this same assumption about Truman (P. 307). In 1864," Edwards says, 'a Kansas Red Leg Captain named Truman, passed through Howard like a scourge, cutting, slashing, hanging, and shooting. In Boonslick township he killed Sashet (sic] Carson, Oliver Rose, Tazewell Jones, John Stepp, John T. Marshall and John Cooper, all worthy and peaceful citizens. Others were killed in various parts of the county and the Guerrillas grew in proportion as the people were preyed upon.' Truman was eventually arrested by Fisk, who returned a great deal of his plunder. He was put on trial in St. Joseph (see Columbia Missouri Statesman, July 15,1864, p. 2, col. 5) but was never convicted of any crimes because after several would-be witnesses were murdered, the remainder would not testify against him. Michael Fellman makes reference to the activities of Truman in Inside War. The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri the American Civil War (Oxford University
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