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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 10 0 Browse Search
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B. Hunt, privates T. J. Gray, L Houseworth, Charles Moss, O. Stevenson, Martin Searles, M. Watts, G. Pickett, all slightly. Missing--Private Horton Smith. Total — Killed, two; wounded, thirteen; missing, one. Number engaged — Commanding officers, two; enlisted men, fifty-three. Co. H, Capt. Wm. J. Morgan, Commanding. Killed--Private John C. Lenhart. Wounded--Sergeant Henry S. Dirlan, Corporals Wm. II. Rosseter, Chester J. Case, privates Samuel Fishel, Harrison Moore, Wm. H. Prince, Geo. H. Tifft, all severely; Corporal Josiah Staples, privates George Clark, Jas. Cross, Aquilla Maues, all slightly; Emmer E. Rossiter mortally, since died. Total — Killed, one; wounded, twelve. Number engaged — Commanding officers, two; enlisted men, twenty-one. Co. I, First Lieut. L. T. Patchin, Commanding. Killed--Corporal J. K. Snyder, private E. Troutman. Wounded--Lieut. L. T. Patchin, severely; private Andrew Conchain, severely; private Chas. Dougherty, slightly.
arched back. But as fast as those orders could be executed, fresh troops were brought against them. The great danger was from flanking movements, which the enemy's great numbers allowed him easily to make, and a hasty retreat was ordered. So went the battle for two long hours. Up and down the wooded hills till night fell, and the moon shone out bright and clear to light the work of death, continued the struggle. Officers and men did nobly. Colonels Dickey, Lee, and Mizener, Lieut.-Colonels Prince and McCullough, Majors Coon, Love, and Rickards, and those under them, were everywhere exposed to the most galling fire, and personally directed the movements of their commands. One of Col. Lee's best officers was killed, and five of Col. Hatch's were wounded. Lieut.-Col. McCullough, of the Fourth Illinois cavalry, fell bravely at the head of his column, shot in the breast. He is doubtless dead, or, if alive, a prisoner. Col. Hatch's horse was killed under him, and Colonel Lee'
t Saltillo, eight miles north of Tupelo and that the rebels had fled south, abandoning Tupelo. Fearing that Major Coon might encounter too strong a foe, Lieut.-Col. Prince, Seventh Illinois cavalry, with about a hundred men, was sent promptly into Tupelo, and the rest of the force was moved back seven miles to a point where thst ahead of him. The depot, containing commissary stores and corn, was burned, and small brides and trestle-work on the road near Coonawa were destroyed. Lieutenant-Col. Prince returned about three o'clock A. M., Tuesday, to our camp, having found no enemy in Tupelo, and having destroyed some trestle-work north of the town. The my was seen in Verona and Okolona, but fled — returning however, in some force to Okolona as our troopers were leaving that place on Wednesday afternoon. Lieut.-Col. Prince, with a party at Verona, on Tuesday, captured eighteen large boxes of infantry equipments, complete, some of them marked, Col. S. D. Roddy; several boxes of