Item description:  This leaflet recounts a skirmish near Springfield, Mo., where several hundred pro-Union “Hessian” troops were captured and weapons were seized by Confederate forces. This skirmish was a part of the lead up to the Battle of Wilson’s Creek (10 August 1861).

Item citation: From folder 30 of the John S. Henderson Papers #327, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.