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The Daily Dispatch: March 6, 1863., [Electronic resource], Progress of the War. (search)
his headquarters in the residence of Major Hunt, on Beal street; Gen. Logan's forces were encamped near the State Hospital; Gen Quinby's on New Orleans street, with headquarters at Mrs Jesse Tate's residence; and the Illinois and Iowa cavalry near the Fair Grounds. The fortifications were guarded by three regiments from Iowa and Illinois troops. The gunboat Gen. Bragg was the only war craft in the river. The fall of Arkansas Post — authentic particulars — who surrendered it. Dr. C. H. Smith, chief surgeon of the division at Arkansas Post, has furnished an authentic statement of the fall of that place, which will be found interesting as the first account proceeding from a source within the fort and having an official aspect. He says: The place was fortified by an earth work called "Fort Hindman," which fort mounted three large size guns, two casemated and one on barbaric, together with some five or six small field places, two of which were rifled Parrott guns. One mi