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Leavenworth
City 5 o'clock P.M. July 23rd 1864
Brig. Gen.
Thos. A. Davis
Dear
Sir.
The Leading
Rich Rebels about Parkville are the following:
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| *Dr. Joseph Walker | (Paw Paw M. harbors bushwhackers) - Rich |
| *W. J. Miller | Connected with Kickapoo fraud in '56, voted six times - Capt. of P.P. Militia - Rich |
| John Kimbalake | A bushwhacker, 2 sons bushwhackers - Rich |
| Eli Link | Rich Rebel. Bro. in-law Capt. P.P. Militia |
| Geo. W. Thompson | (Kickapoo fraud) Col. in Rebel Army - Rich |
| C. K. Whitney | Harbors bushwhackers - Rich |
| Elias Mashwell | Been Capt. in Price's Army - Rich |
| *Jesse Miller | Kickapoo fraud - ought to be hung - Rich |
| Fielding Burnes | Government freighter - Arrant Rebel - good farm |
| *Samuel Rixie | Rebel - Rich |
| Madison Valandingham | Bushwhacker - Rich |
| John Keys | Reb. said 30 days since that the Rebs had that sec. and would hold it |
| *Ed Clark | Reb. said Union men had to get out of there without notice. |
| *Jesse Morin | Accepted and held a commission of Brig. Gen. in Price's Army. The leading Reb. in the Co. is Deputy Sheriff was register in the land office in Ft. Scott under Buchanan. |
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The above is
entirely reliable
* Had these
men been loyal 4/5 of Platte Co. would have been so
also.
Very
Respectfully,
W.
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