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d to Springfield with a large number of prisoners at three o'clock in the morning of the 11th. He continued his retreat upon Rolia, bringing off his baggage trains and 405,000 in specie from the Springfield Bank. The following is a verbal report taken from a special messenger who brought dispatches for General Fremont: Early on Saturday morning General Lyon marched out of Springfield to give battle to the enemy. He came up to him on Davis Creek, on Green's prairie, a few miles Southwest of Springfield, where he had taken a strong position on rolling ground, at 20 minutes past 5 o'clock in the morning. General Lyon fired the first gun, when the battle immediately began. Severe cannonading was kept up for two or three hours, when the fire of Captain Totten's artillery proving too severe for the enemy, they gradually fell back towards their encampment on Wilson's Creek. General Lyon's cavalry was posted on the enemy's left flank and Gen. Siegei's artillery on the right