Early Warriors.—In the days of the Revolution, when the battle for human liberty was fought and won, what is now Cole County was unknown to the fathers of the Republic, and far beyond the territory they intended to make free. The French voyageur, however, was here, and at the close of the last century could tell of the Osage country. The War of 1812 was also fought and won before the district claimed attention from immigrants. Among the number who came here in 1815-25 were veterans of both wars. One of them, Christopher CASEY, a lieutenant of Capt. PICKEN's company of Continental troops, and afterward an officer in the brigades of Gens. GREENE, THOMAS and MORGAN, was born in South Carolina, and in 1773 served with Gen. WILLIAMSON's expedition against the Cherokees. He died in Cole County, aged eighty-six years, in August, 1840.
James HUNTER, the first senator from this district, was also a veteran, together with others who are mentioned in this volume. The terribly grim warriors of Black Hawk, in the north, rose in arms in 1832, and among the troops from Central Missouri sent to oppose their entry into this State were John JAMISON's first Callaway County company and Patrick EWING's second Callaway company. In October, 1837, Osceola's warriors rebelled. They remembered the destruction of their women and children at Apalachicola in 1816, by the British under GAINES, and had little faith in the whites, so that they determined to make themselves free; but the United States sent a strong force against the poor savages, and at Okeechobee Lake crushed the power of the Seminoles, Col. GENTRY's Missouri regiment being the leading factor in the victory. The whites lost 138 men, mostly citizens of Missouri, and among them was Col. GENTRY.
In September, 1838, after the volunteers for the Mormon War were mustered out at Boonville, they came to Jefferson City, near which town Walter S. GARNER, the pioneer blacksmith of old California, was killed by a drunken associate.
Lewis BOLTON was major-general of the Sixth Division Missouri Militia, and B. M. LISLE, adjutant-general.
James HUNTER, the first senator from this district, was also a veteran, together with others who are mentioned in this volume. The terribly grim warriors of Black Hawk, in the north, rose in arms in 1832, and among the troops from Central Missouri sent to oppose their entry into this State were John JAMISON's first Callaway County company and Patrick EWING's second Callaway company. In October, 1837, Osceola's warriors rebelled. They remembered the destruction of their women and children at Apalachicola in 1816, by the British under GAINES, and had little faith in the whites, so that they determined to make themselves free; but the United States sent a strong force against the poor savages, and at Okeechobee Lake crushed the power of the Seminoles, Col. GENTRY's Missouri regiment being the leading factor in the victory. The whites lost 138 men, mostly citizens of Missouri, and among them was Col. GENTRY.
In September, 1838, after the volunteers for the Mormon War were mustered out at Boonville, they came to Jefferson City, near which town Walter S. GARNER, the pioneer blacksmith of old California, was killed by a drunken associate.
Lewis BOLTON was major-general of the Sixth Division Missouri Militia, and B. M. LISLE, adjutant-general.
History of Cole, Moniteau, Morgan, Benton, Miller, Maries, and Osage Counties, Missouri Goodspeed Publishing Company (1889)