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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., chapter 24 (search)
d the enemy's rear-guard rather stubborn beyond it; he driving them steadily till nightfall; when Independence was taken by a brilliant cavalry charge — Cutherwood's regiment capturing two guns — Pleasanton following sharply, after dispatching McNeil, with his brigade, to Little Santa Fe, to intercept the enemy, and telegraphing Rosecrans, Let Smith come to this place. Hereupon, Rosecrans--reluctantly, as he very naturally says--gave the order solicited; which reached Smith that night at Chapel Hill, just as he was putting his column in motion southward, and sent it westward instead. Next morning, Pleasanton pressed on to the crossing of the Big Blue; where he found the enemy's main body — which, the day before, had fought Curtis, but had not moved him — prepared for resistance. The fight opened at 7 A. M., and was maintained with spirit on both sides till 1 P. M., when the Rebels decamped — were routed and fled southward, says Rosecrans; though they would of course use differ