Extra Battalion, Infantry, attached to Col. Hughes' Command. Major C. B. Housand. Capt. Churchill Clark's Battery also attached to Col. Hughes' command. Brig. Gen. A. E. Stein, Commanding. First Regiment—Infantry. Col. J. P. Sanders, Commanding. Lt. Col. W. H. Cundiff. John S. Teasdale, M. D., Ass't Surgeon. A. B. Nephler, Ass't Surgeon. Adjt. J. H. Lawther. B. S. Howard, M. D., Ass't Surgeon. Major Nay Bostick. E. McD. Coffey, M. D., Surgeon. W. W. S. Kelly, M. D., Ass't Surgeon. W. F. Stark, M. D., Ass't Surgeon. Major John Landis. First Battalion, Artillery. Adjutant Toole. SIXTH DIVISION. Brig. Gen. M. M. Parsons. SEVENTH DIVISION. Brig. Gen. J. H. McBride. EIGHTH DIVISION. Brig. Gen. Jas. S. Rains, Commanding. Lt. Col. John McMurtry, Quarter Master. Lt. Col. Geo. W. Taylor, Surgeon. Lt. Col. Wm. E. Arnold, Division Inspector. Lt. Col. Geo. S. Rathburn, Division Judge Advocate. Lt. Col. Warner Lewis, Division Paymaster. Lt. Col. B. H. Woodson, Aid-de-Camp. Lt. Col. Wm. M. Briscoe, Aid-de-Camp. Geo. W. Haymakeur, Sergeant Major. First Infantry. Col. Thomas H. Rosser, Commanding. Lt. Col. Wm. Martin. Col. Benjamin Elliott, Commanding. Capt. J. E. Harwood, Adjutant. Lt. Col. L. W. Councilman. Second Third Infantry. Col. Jas. Clarkson, Commanding. Lt. Col. Robert W. Crawford. Major Alex. C. Lamar. Lt. Col. James McCown, Commanding. Capt. Wm. M. King. Third Cavalry. Lt. Col. Martin White. Capt. D. H. Williams, Adjutant. Col. R. L. Y. Peyton, Commanding. Lt. Col. John W. Payne. Col. DeWitt C. Hunter, Commanding. Lt. Col. Richard A. Vaughan. Major G. W. Bolton. Capt. B. O. Weidemeyer, Adjutant. At the risk of a slight hiatus, but because more properly belonging here, I append General Price's farewell address to the Missouri State Guard, issued at Des Arc, Arkansas, in April, 1862, until which time, from Osceola, he had been in command of both the State Guard and the Missouri Confederate troops: GEN. PRICE'S ADDRESS. H. QRS. AD❜'T DES ARC, ARK., April 8th, 1862. The resignation of Sterling Price, Major General of the Missouri State Guard, has been received and is hereby accepted, to take effect from this date. The Commander-in-Chief takes this occasion to express his sincere regret to the Missouri State Guard at the loss of so gallant, experienced and distinguished an officer from their councils, and to encourage them in such a perform ance of their duties in the future as will keep bright the fame they have so nobly won under his leadership. By order of the Governor. WARWICK HOUGH, Adjutant General of Missouri. ARC, ORS. MO. STATE, GUARD,} DES ARC, ARK., April 8th, 1862. General Orders, No. 79. Soldiers of the State Guard: I command you no longer. I have this day resigned the commission which your patient endurance, your devoted patriotism, and your dauntless bravery have made so honorable. I have done this that I may the better serve you, our State, and our country-that I may the sooner lead you back to the fertile prairies, the rich woodlands and majestic streams of our beloved Missouri-that I may more certainly restore you to your once more happy homes, and to the loved ones there. Five thousand of those who have fought side by side. with us, under the Grizzly Bears of Missouri, have followed me into the Confederate camp. They appeal to you, as I do, by all the tender memories of the past, not to leave us now, but to go with us wherever the path of duty may lead, till we shall have conquered a peace and won our independence by brilliant deeds upon new fields of battle. Soldiers of the State Guard! Veterans of six pitched battles and nearly twenty skirmishes-Conquerors in them all! Your country, with its ruined hearths and shrines, calls upon you to rally once more in her defence, and rescue her forever from the terrible thralldom which threatens her. I know she will not call in vain. The insolent and barbarous hordes which have dared to invade our soil, and to desecrate our homes, have just met with a signal overthrow beyond the Mississippi. Now is the time to end this unhappy war. If every man will do his duty his own roof will shelter him in peace from the storms of the coming winter. Let not history record that the men who bore with patience the privations of Cowskin Prairie, who endured, uncomplainingly, the burning heats of a Missouri summer, and the frosts and snows of a Missouri winter; that the men who met the enemy at Carthage, at Wilson's Creek, at Fort Scott, at Lexington, and in numberless lesser battlefields in Missouri, and met them but to conquer them; that the men who fought so bravely and so well at Elk Horn; that the unpaid soldiers of Missouri were, after so many victories, and after so much suffering, unequal to the great task of achieving the independence of their magnificent State. Soldiers! I go but to make a pathway to our homes! Follow me! STERLING PRICE. H. QRS. ADJ'T GENERAL'S OFFICE M. S. G. General Orders, No. 26. I. Brigadier General M. M. Parsons is hereby specially detailed to the command of all the Missouri State Guard now in the field, and will immediately organize them into battalions and regiments according to law. II. The Army Corps to be thus organized will consist exclusively of Infantry and Artillery. III. The General commanding will report, as soon as practicable, the entire force in the Missouri State Guard, now remaining, rank and file. By order of the Governor. WARWICK HOUGH, Adjutant General of Missouri. CHAPTER IX. THE ORGANIZATION OF THE FIRST MISSOURI BRIGADE. N 2d December, 1861, while the Missouri State Guard were encamped on Sac river, near Osceola, Missouri, General Price established a separate encampment for recruits to the regular Confederate army, from whence sprang the future First Missouri Brigade. The following order was promulgated to the State Guard: HEADQUARTERS M. S. G., CAMP ON SAC RIVER,} General Orders, No. 109. I. A separate encampment will be forthwith established for the troops volunteering to enter the Provisional Army of the Confederate States, upon the terms stated in the cir |