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Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 4: (search)
and captured, February 19th, several companies of Confederate recruits at Blackwater creek, near Knobnoster, under Colonels Robinson, Alexander and McGiffin, of which achievement Generals Pope and Halleck made much boast to Washington. Brig.-Gen. S. R. Curtis was, December 23d, assigned to the command of the Federal forces of the southwestern district of Missouri. On December 2d, martial law had been declared in Missouri by Mr. Lincoln, and Curtis was without restraint. The men under him buthe woods, but never advanced. This battery also, naively adds the general, was thus, with its supporting forces, by the presence of the Indians rendered useless to the enemy during the action. March 9, 1862, General Van Dorn requested of General Curtis that, according to the usages of war, his burial parties be permitted to collect and inter the bodies of officers and men who fell during the engagement of the 7th and 8th, to which the Federal commander replied that all possible facilities w
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 5: (search)
e, the enemy hastily retreated. April 21st, Curtis' advance was met in a skirmish at Pocahontas, e enemy with a galling fire of musketry, until Curtis ordered out his artillery. Curtis, in his rep vicinity. On the 19th of May a detachment of Curtis' army was sent to impress forage on the south rs, until they were in the way of each other. Curtis was begging for men and supplies when he couldmber of his forces, intended to be conveyed to Curtis by disloyal informers. The news that Van Dorn, intending there to cross White river, get in Curtis' front and dispute the passage of Black river, river and take position on Cache river, which Curtis must cross in his march southward. [Cache rived upon to the last moment from the west bank. Curtis, at the same time, moved eastward to the Missi Marianna, and to Helena. After this affair Curtis' forces were confined within narrow limits aro of the people of Arkansas rose perceptibly. Curtis was making no demonstrations beyond occasional[16 more...]
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 6: (search)
n conjunction with General Steele, drive the enemy, not only from Missouri, but from the Arkansas valley. But Steele failed to cooperate. On September 24th, General Curtis assumed command of the department of Missouri, and Schofield took command of the forces in southwest Missouri, and after the battle of Newtonia he advanced agy over the ground formerly occupied by the enemy, before they reached his headquarters, protected by cavalry only. General Herron, in a communication to Major-General Curtis, dated Camp Prairie Grove, December 10th, wrote: The loss in my division is heavy, and will almost reach 1,000 killed and wounded. For four hours the f We mourn the loss of Lieutenant-Colonel McFarland, and several other officers of that regiment, killed. General Blunt, in his report of December 20th to General Curtis, said: I could not tell with any certainty the extent of the damage done the enemy, but knowing that they had a force greatly superior to mine, I felt ass
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 7: (search)
opened his budget of information to the Federal commander of the post, who transmitted it to General Curtis. Johnson's statement was that he was stopped by Marmaduke at Batesville, February 1st, who hat Marmaduke's intention was to march on Pilot Knob with a command of about 4,000 men, etc. General Curtis, desiring as usual to increase his force, sent the statement to the war department with thisconflict of arms, declared himself a Union man, but declined the appointment tendered him by General Curtis, at Batesville, of commander of the First Arkansas (Federal) regiment, there organized. On the departure of Curtis, being told that he was in personal danger, he took refuge in Missouri. There he was recognized by Newton and his men, captured and taken as a prisoner to Little Rock. He was be neglected. But the possibility of an attack had also the attention of the Federal leaders. Curtis referred to it and directed a movement from Cape Girardeau in aid of Helena. The hordes collect
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 8: (search)
between Marmaduke and Walker evacuation of Little Rock. Major-General Curtis, commander of the Federal department of Missouri, wrote, on t of a factional quarrel among the Union men of Missouri, in which Curtis and Governor Gamble were opposing leaders. As he could not remove Gamble, he had to remove Curtis. General Halleck gave another reason, which throws light on the subsequent campaign in Arkansas, namely: Although Curtis had been repeatedly instructed to push his entire force from the Mississippi river and White river to Little Rock, he had, insteadned in the acrimonious controversy which had arisen between him and Curtis in regard to the Prairie Grove (Ark.) engagement. Schofield had written to Curtis: At Prairie Grove, Blunt and Herron were badly beaten, and owed their escape to a false report of my arrival with reinforcements. To this Curtis had replied that he did not see the necessity of Schofield's anticipating the reports of these generals of their own affai
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 11: (search)
E, Captain Garrett, of Carroll county; Company F, Captain Goodnight, of Stone county; Company G, Captain Carnahan, of Washington county; Company H, Captain Kelly, of Pike county; Company I, Capt. Daniel Boone, of Madison county; Company K, Capt. John Lawrence, of Searcy county. The regiment went into camp at Elm Springs, Benton county, where it remained in winter quarters until February, 1862, when General Price and his army of Missouri fell back before a large force of Federals under General Curtis, and made a stand at Elkhorn tavern in Benton county. On the 4th of March, the regiment marched to reinforce Price, forming part of Hebert's brigade, under command of Gen. Ben McCulloch, and took part in the battle of the 7th. The regiment entered into action soon after General McCulloch's death, passing the body of the dead general in their charge. The greater part of the Confederate forces which retreated to Frog Bayou, consisting of Missouri and Arkansas regiments, were transferred