Here, the relevant section of Col. Jennison’s, 15th Kansas Cavalry,

Number 81. Report of Colonel Charles R. Jennison, Fifteenth Kansas Cavalry, commanding First Brigade.

HDQRS. 1ST Brigadier, 1ST DIV., ARMY OF THE BORDER,
Fort Scott, November 23, 1864.

. . . . But before proceeding farther it became my most painful duty to record the loss of two of the most efficient and faithful officers of my command, Captain Orloff Norton, Company L, Fifteenth Kansas Cavalry, and First Lieutenant Emmett Goss, Company M, Fifteenth Kansas Cavalry, who were undoubtedly murdered while in charge of foraging parties in the vicinity of Cane Hill on the 12th of November, as all search for them has proven fruitless, and when last heard from they were closely pursued by a large force of guerrillas said to be under command of Lieutenant Tucks, C. S. Army. Always faithful in the discharged of their duties, never hesitating in the execution of any order however hazardous, Captain Norton and Lieutenant Goss had endeared themselves to the entire command by their uniform kindness and affability toward all. Their loss is one which can be illy sustained by the regiment, and their memory will ever be cherished by all whose good fortune it was to be associated with them. On the same day (12th) First Lieutenant J. T. Smith, commanding Company E, Fifteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, in charge of another party, was attacked by an overwhelming force of bushwhackers, and in the fight which ensued Lieutenant Smith was very severely if not fatally wounded, he having been left in a critical situation at the hospital at Fayetteville, Ark. He was struck in the back and thigh, the former shot going through the body and coming out below the left breast. The latter was a severe and painful flesh wound. Lieutenant Smith will probably be permanently disabled for active service, if indeed he recovers from the effects of his wounds. . . .

C. R. JENNISON,
Colonel Fifteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, Commanding First Brigade, First Division, Army of the Border.

OR Ser. 1, V. 41, Part 1 pp. 589, (Price's Missouri Expedition)