Borderruffian
1st Lieutenant
- Joined
- Aug 4, 2007
- Location
- Marshfield Missouri
Formed in 1861 in St Louis during the tenure of Fremont as Commander of the Department of the West The Jessie Scouts were basically a Scout and Spy Company that
specialized in gathering intelligence dressed as Confederate troops. Named after Fremont's wife Jessie Benton Fremont were commanded by Charles C. Carpenter who had been in service as a Scout and Spy for Fremont prior to the formation of the scouts.
Capt. William McMichael said of Carpenter in a letter to U.S. Grant; "admirably adapted for the dangerous services in which he engages. During the times that General Fremont was in command, he several times performed such services as clearly indicated that he adds great shrewdness to the reckless courage which he undoubtedly possesses."
Jessie Scouts would go on to serve in the Western and Eastern Theaters of war as the war progressed, and would scout into Mexico after the war to gather intelligence on Confederate expat's there.
http://www.pddoc.com/skedaddle/058/exploits_of_capt_carpenter_of.htm
http://feraljundi.com/history/history-the-jessie-scouts-the-contractormilitary-covert-warriors-of-the-civil-war/
http://www.researchonline.net/articles/article036.htm
http://www.researchonline.net/articles/article035.htm
http://www.jessiescouts.com/Jessie%20Scouts%20Home.html
specialized in gathering intelligence dressed as Confederate troops. Named after Fremont's wife Jessie Benton Fremont were commanded by Charles C. Carpenter who had been in service as a Scout and Spy for Fremont prior to the formation of the scouts.
Capt. William McMichael said of Carpenter in a letter to U.S. Grant; "admirably adapted for the dangerous services in which he engages. During the times that General Fremont was in command, he several times performed such services as clearly indicated that he adds great shrewdness to the reckless courage which he undoubtedly possesses."
Jessie Scouts would go on to serve in the Western and Eastern Theaters of war as the war progressed, and would scout into Mexico after the war to gather intelligence on Confederate expat's there.
http://www.pddoc.com/skedaddle/058/exploits_of_capt_carpenter_of.htm
http://feraljundi.com/history/history-the-jessie-scouts-the-contractormilitary-covert-warriors-of-the-civil-war/
http://www.researchonline.net/articles/article036.htm
http://www.researchonline.net/articles/article035.htm
http://www.jessiescouts.com/Jessie%20Scouts%20Home.html