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Doc. 98.-the fight at Salem, Arkansas.

The following is General Halleck's official despatch to Secretary Stanton, announcing the result of the fight at Salem, Arkansas:

St. Louis, March 18, 1862.
To Secretary Stanton:
A scouting party, under Lieut.-Col. Wood and Major Drake, consisting of about two hundred and fifty men of the Sixth Missouri and Third Iowa cavalry, encountered near Salem, Arkansas, about one thousand of the enemy, under Cols. Coleman, Woodsides, and McFarland. After a severe fight the enemy was defeated, with the loss of Col. Woodsides, and about one hundred killed and wounded, and a considerable number of prisoners. Our loss was twenty-five killed and wounded,

H. W. Halleck, Major-General.

Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.

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