hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 59 1 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
Col. John C. Moore, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.2, Missouri (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans). You can also browse the collection for Jo Shelby or search for Jo Shelby in all documents.

Your search returned 30 results in 2 document sections:

Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 4: (search)
The circumstance of his prompt establishment of headquarters at Pocahontas, in striking distance of Point Pleasant on the Mississippi, the route by which Hardee's command had been transferred, confirmed this opinion in many minds. Halleck's strategy was to prevent this. Gen. John Pope, who had been in command of the enemy's forces in Missouri between the Missouri and Osage rivers, had sent Merrill's Horse through Saline county, where they were bombarded with mortars loaded with mud by Jo Shelby and his men, near Waverly. They stripped farms, impressed stock from women, and captured, February 19th, several companies of Confederate recruits at Blackwater creek, near Knobnoster, under Colonels Robinson, Alexander and McGiffin, of which achievement Generals Pope and Halleck made much boast to Washington. Brig.-Gen. S. R. Curtis was, December 23d, assigned to the command of the Federal forces of the southwestern district of Missouri. On December 2d, martial law had been declared in
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 6: (search)
their artillery at Lone Jack, August 16th. Col. Jo Shelby reported to Gen. J. S. Marmaduke, regardins charged them, mounted, with a war-whoop, and Shelby's Missouri and Stevens' Texas regiments flanke college, a favorite institution of learning. Shelby had with him Bledsoe's battery of two iron 6-pves, not a man showing the white feather. Colonel Shelby and some of his men, riding rapidly down tC. Monroe, reduced to about 500 effective men; Shelby's brigade, 1,100; MacDonald's brigade, about 7 the enemy's pickets. Early Saturday morning, Shelby encountered the enemy in strong force, and disery to take position in the road, supported by Shelby's brigade, dismounted, ready to resist an advaent to learn the movements at Cane hill, while Shelby and MacDonald moved forward toward Fayettevillry, artillery and cavalry. Marmaduke withdrew Shelby and assigned him a position with the infantry,an, Parsons and McRae, and Colonels Shaver and Shelby, commanding brigades, did their duty nobly. I[19 more...]