NEWTONIA, MO., August 10, 1863.

GENERAL: Lieutenant [R. B.] Riggs, at Neosho, reports to me this evening that he on yesterday, with a small party, marched to within 3 miles of Coffee’s camp, at Garden Hollow, near Pineville. There he came in contact with a small party of Coffee’s men, and succeeded in killing 3 and wounding 2, and took 2 prisoners. He reports Coffee to be at Garden Hollow, near Pineville, with from 300 to 500 men; his intentions unknown.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, yours, &c.,

C. B. McAFEE,
Captain Third Battalion, Sixth Missouri State Militia Cavalry.

SOURCE: OR, Series I, Volume 22, Part I, Page 550.

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