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Info on Elliott's attack on Pins near Carthage

I've been looking for other sources regarding an attack on "Pin Indians and runaway Negros" outside of Carthage on Sept 14, 1862. Other than Edward's account, are there other sources regarding this event?

Edwards, John N. (2013-11-07). Shelby and His Men or, The War in the West (Trans-Mississippi Musings Classics) (Kindle Locations 1405-1418). . Kindle Edition.

News came at length by one of Colonel Shelby’s innumerable scouts that a large body of Pin Indians and runaway Negroes were camped in a skirt of timber near Carthage, levying black-mail indiscriminately upon the inhabitants, and murdering right and left with habitual brutality. These Pin Indians were all members of the Ross party among the Cherokees, and had from the beginning of the war taken up arms and joined the Kansas Federals. Skulking about their old homes in the Nation and making forays into Missouri was the principal part of their warfare, varied frequently by innumerable murders of old men, and the wholesale pillage and destruction of farm-houses. To crush them at a blow was Colonel Shelby’s ardent desire, and he selected Captain Ben. Elliott, Company I, of his own regiment, for the work, giving to him strong detachments from other companies. By a forced march of great rapidity and caution, Captain Elliott surrounded their camp by daylight on the morning of the 14th of September and charged from all sides to a common center. Surprised, ridden over and trampled down, the Indians and their Negro allies made but feeble resistance. Everywhere amid the heavy brushwood a silent scene of killing was enacted, none praying for mercy, well knowing that their own previous atrocities had forfeited it, and often, with the stoical hardihood of their race, uncovering their breasts to the unerring revolvers. But one prisoner was taken and few escaped. In two hours this band of two hundred and fifty savages was exterminated almost completely, everything they possessed falling into Captain Elliott’s hands, the most acceptable articles being about two hundred new Minnie muskets just issued to them by the authorities at Fort Scott. A dozen or more of the scalps of their white victims were found upon the dead, and one, a woman’s, was particularly noticed. The long, soft hair had still its silken gloss, though tangled all amid the curls were clotted drops of blood.

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