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The Daily Dispatch: August 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
s, for prisoners taken in battle, if not your own folks, and you had better procure them now. Yours, in haste, John L. Hodsden. Adjutant General. The reported victory in Missouri. The Memphis Appeal of the 31st ult., says: We have received a letter from a special correspondent, dated the afternoon of the 29th inst., from a point up the river, which we do not deem it either prudent or necessary to mention; stating that General Pillow had just received an express from Gen. Jeff. Thompson, of Missouri, announcing that General Ben. McCulloch had on Wednesday last made an attack on Springfield, and achieved a brilliant victory over the Federal forces, who were strongly fortified at that place under Gen. Lyon. It was represented as a hard fight, and the loss reported at 600 from McCulloch's command, against 900 of the enemy, with many Federal prisoners taken. The further statement is made, that after their rout the enemy was pursued, with what success we are unable to l