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The Daily Dispatch: August 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
bought by the blood of many a skillful officer and brave man. Others will report the losses sustained by the Confederate forces; I shall willingly confine myself to the losses within my own army. Among those who fell mortally wounded upon the battle-field, none deserve a dearer place in the memory of Missourians, than Richard Hanson Weightman, Colonel commanding the first brigade of the second division of the army. Here, too, died in the discharge of his duty, Col. Ben Brown, of Ray county, President of the Senate, a good man and true. Brig. Gen. Slack's division suffered severely. He himself fell dangerously wounded at the head of his column. Of his regiment of infantry, under Col. J. T. Hughes, consisting of about 650 men, 36 were killed, 76 wounded, many of them mortally, and 30 are missing. Among the killed are C. H. Bennett, Adjutant of the regiment, Captain Blackwell and Lt. Hughes. Colonel Rives' squadron of cavalry, (dismounted,) numbering some 234 men, lost