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A big scare was occasioned the Secesh in Weston, Platte County, yesterday, by the sudden appearance among them of U. S. troops from the upper country, who dispersed the camp at Platte City, and at last accounts were following (John E. Bully Pitt) “Bully” Pitt's force in the direction of the river.
Weston was alarmed - Weston was afraid that the sins ’55 ’56 (1855-1856) would be visited upon its head; and right speedy was the stampede of the traitors from the town. They went on foot and on horseback. They sent their niggers, but the latter species of “portable property” was overhauled and sent back by Uncle Sam's pickets down about Platte City. Their reign of pillage and plunder is almost over.
Honesty and warlike honor will make few more requisitions for clothes, blankets, and what is more essential still, whisky, upon the Union merchants of Weston. The fact is, the mere mention of Federals has been a “scare” which the Secesh of Platte will not recover from in a month; and as for running on these occasions, they will match Flora Temple or Ethan Allen.
Secesh was gloomy in Platte yesterday; its countenance was elongated and dressed in mourning, as it learned the departed greatness of “Bully” Pitt, and the danger of Price and Rains. - Leavenworth Times 18th.Date(s) of Creation
9/21/1861
