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I remain here to-day at the special request of several who have just left me. To-morrow I shall return to Newport to await any communication from you. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, JAS. BANKHEAD, Colonel Second Regiment Artillery. PROVIDENCE, R.I., June 27, 1842.
Later, a fifth battery was erected on the island, and the number of guns in battery on the island and on the main-land, at the bend, was increased to fifty-four, exclusive of the floating battery. On the Missouri shore a bastioned redoubt, called Fort Thompson, with fourteen guns, stood below the town, and an earthwork with seven guns, called Fort Bankhead, just above the town.
I accordingly wrote out a long telegram informing him of my difficulty, and had it taken to the telegraph office for transmission; but the operator, instead of sending it at once as he should have done, showed it to General Bankhead, who tore it up, and instructed the operator not to pay any attention to what I might say, as he was running that post.
A Difficulty with a Quartermaster's Agent I give him a Severe Pounding Stormy Interview with General Bankhead and Captain Laufer I put another "Head" on the Quartermaster's Agent I am Arrested In the Guard-House General Bankhead Releases me A Hunt after Horse Thieves Their Capture Escape of Bevins His Recapture Escape of Williams Bevins Breaks Out of Jail His Subsequent Career.
WAR DEPARTMENT, May 28, 1842. Colonel BANKHEAD, Newport, R.I. SIR: The governor of Rhode Island has represented to the President that preparations are making by Mr. Dorr and some of his adherents to recruit men in the neighboring States for the purpose of supporting his usurpation of the powers of government, and that he has provided arms and camp equipage for a large number of men.
Flora and Snow and all those girls, with nothing on their brains except fellows and fancy work, make me positively sick." "I notice Flora had enough brains to become engaged to a fine young fellow with prospects like Vincent Bankhead." "Every time I sit down at that circle I think I'm going to scream. I just can't rake up enthusiasm over French knots.
Two field-batteries, besides the heavy artillery, great quantities of ammunition for small arms as well as for the artillery, tents, stores of all sorts, the wagons, horses, and mules of the troops at Fort Thompson, were found. The wagons and animals at Fort Bankhead had been sent across the river a few days before.
General Bankhead thereupon sent for Captain Laufer and ordered him to turn the horse and mule over to me. In a few minutes more I was on my way to Sheridan, and after settling my business there, I proceeded to Fort Lyon, arriving two days afterwards. I related my adventures to General Carr, Major Brown, and other officers, who were greatly amused thereby.
I at once laid hold of him, and in a short time had treated him to just such a thrashing as his contemptible lie deserved. He then mounted a horse, rode to Fort Wallace, and reported me to General Bankhead and Captain Laufer, and obtained a guard to return with and protect him.
The force in Forts Thompson and Bankhead numbered about three thousand effectives, according to General A.P. Stewart, who had general command of both; thirty-five hundred, according to General Gantt, who commanded at Fort Thompson, and had been promoted after being assigned to the command.
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