Borderruffian
Captain
- Joined
- Aug 4, 2007
- Location
- Marshfield Missouri
Chester White was born in 1838 and lived with his family at Tate, Ohio.1 On October 10, 1861 White enlisted in Company L, 2nd Ohio Cavalry Regiment. On January 27, 1862 the regiment was sent to the Missouri-Kansas border for scouting duty. About a month later, the regiment participated in its first skirmish. On February 22, a scouting party consisting of 120 men from the regiment was attacked by William Clark Quantrill in Independence, Missouri.2 The engagement lasted fifteen minutes, and resulted in one death and three wounded from the 2nd Ohio Cavalry, while Quantrill suffered fourteen casualties. From May 25 – July 8, the regiment served on an expedition into Indian Territory, present day Oklahoma. In June 1862, they engaged Stand Waite and the First Cherokee Mounted Rifles.
after we thought we had them surrounded the Battery was brought into position and then crash – went into the camp – the bursting shells and mud shot and such screeching and yelling as went up from that camp you never heard – for by the way it was the camp under the command of Standwathy [Stand Watie] a half-breed Cherokee who had about 700 of the painted devils with him – while the shelling was going on an orderly came from the Gen ordering us around to the place that the major spoken of above, did not occupy as the Indians were in full retreat but before we could get there through the brush they had gone into Coffee's camp we pursued them there but the whole force had left there we pursued them but our horses were wearied and so we returned to the camp with 40 prisoners – we stationed our pickets and laid down to sleep at 2 o'clock in the morning
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