Daily Times
Leavenworth, Kansas
June 20, 1861
Mr. A. Rushmore, who came up from Liberty, yesterday, brings intelligence that on Tuesday night, the Majors carried down to that place, a body of U. S. troops and two pieces of artillery. They surprised a party of secession troops, at breakfast, and captured about 30, including their leader, Brig. Gen. Morin. A pole 100 feet high was cut down, a secession flag taken therefrom, and torn up by the soldiers, who carried off the pieces on the points of their bayonets.
All the prisoners took the oath of allegiance to the U. S., and were released, with the exception of Morin. At last accounts, he was still in custody.