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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 2 0 Browse Search
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 11, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 9: events at Nashville, Columbus, New Madrid, Island number10, and Pea Ridge. (search)
his dusky followers. That degenerate Bostonian (see note 1, page 475, volume I.) soon took off his Indian costume and was hidden in the shadows of obscurity until the close of the war, when he re-appeared for a moment as a suppliant for mercy, and was granted a full pardon by President Johnson. Both parties tacitly agreed to fight no more in that exhausted section of the State, and both soon disappeared from the scene of this conflict. Van Dorn collected his scattered forces on the road between the Elkhorn Tavern and Bentonville, about eight miles from the battle-field, made an arrangement with Curtis for burying the Confederate dead, and, after accomplishing that humane object, withdrew; Curtis gave his army ample rest on the field of his victory, and finding no foe to fight in that section of Arkansas, he marched in a southeasterly direction to Batesville, the capital of Independence County, on the White River, where he arrived on the 6th of May. Tail-piece — Unfit for dut
ing counties, along White river, and speedily organized a force of 300 men, with which he met and skirmished with Livingston's rangers from Batesville at Lunenburg, killing Captain Baxter, Fourth Arkansas (Federal) infantry; took possession of Jacksonport a few days afterward, and held the south side of Red river. McRae, Freeman and James Rutherford made life irksome for the Federal commander of the Batesville district thenceforward, operating throughout White, Jackson, Woodruff and Independence counties. January 30th, Captain Kauffner, with a detachment of the Third Arkansas (Federal), made a raid against McRae's force, capturing a lieutenant of Andrew Little's company and 11 men, as he reported, near Searcy landing. At Hot Springs, February 4th, Capt. Wm. Harrison surprised and killed some mountain Federals who had been terrorizing his family. February 5th, Gen. C. B. Holland, in command of Missouri and Arkansas cavalry, made a raid on Berryville, Carrollton and Rolling prairie,
mas, of the Commissary Department here, and Dr. Nagle, surgeon of the Hospital, on yesterday morning, in which Mr. Thomas was stabbed in the arm by Nagle. Thomas being unarmed, other parties interfered and separated them. The affair grew out of a letter signed "Backwoodsman, " in last week's paper, in which Thomas, who was the author, accursed Nagle of making misrepresentations in regard to our army, etc. Maj. Shall has called out the militia of Randolph, Greene, Lawrence, Jackson, Independence, and Izzard counties. The Camden Herald, of the 25th, says: The body of the late Col. Richard Lyon arrived in our city yesterday, and was escorted to his late residence by the committee appointed for that purpose, and a very large concourse of our citizens, headed by our military band, with muffled drums. The remains came in charge of Lieut. A. J. Griggs, and after a delay of a few moments proceeded on to El Dorado, the former residence of Col. Lyon, for interment in the fami