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and our men serving the guns were surrounded, they were shot dead by the rebels, although seeking refuge behind the horses. When such acts are committed, it is very natural that our soldiers will seek revenge, if no satisfaction is given by the commander of the confederate army. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, F. Sigel, Brig.-Gen. Commanding First and Second Divisions. To Brig.-Gen. Curtis, Commanding Army of the South-west. A rebel narrative. The Richmond Whig of April ninth, contains the following account of the battle of Pea Ridge, which they call the battle of Elkhorn: The following interesting and reliable account of the late battle in Askansas was addressed to the Hon. G. G. Vest, through whose courtesy we are enabled to lay it before our readers this morning. The letter is from an officer of Price's army, who was in the engagement: The battle's fought, but whether or not won, neither confederates nor Federals can tell. Yet all can understand. W
Beauregard, General Commanding. To Major-General U. S. Grant, Major-General Commanding U. S. Forces Pittsburgh Landing. Headquarters army in field, Pittsburgh, April 9. To General P. G. T. Beauregard, Commanding Confederate Army on Mississippi, Monterey, Tenn.: Your despatch of yesterday is just received. Owing to the warmthspectfully, Wm. H. Gibson, Colonel Commanding Sixth Brigade. Report of Col. A. Willich. headquarters Thirty-Second Indiana regiment, Pittsburgh Landing, April 9. To His Excellency, O. P. Morton : sir: The regiment arrived at ten o'clock A. M., on the seventh of April, at the Landing, and marched up the hill, when I recs country, and long and deeply will his country mourn his loss. Jefferson Davis. Cincinnati Gazette account. Field of battle, Pittsburgh Landing, Tenn., April 9. preliminary — the fight opens. Fresh from the field of the great battle, with its pounding and roaring of artillery, and its keenervoiced rattle of musketr
our discipline, to your patience. Exhibit the vigilance and coolness of last night and hold it. W. D. Mccall, Brigadier-General Commanding. I regret that the painful condition of my feet still requiring to use crutches, prevented me from making a-personal examination of the works. I was therefore compelled to delegate Lieutenant Commanding S. Phelps, of the flag-ship Benton. A. H. Foote, Flag-Officer Naval Forces. General Pope's report. expeditionary force, New-Madrid, Mo., April 9. Major-Gen. H. W. Halleck: The canal across the peninsula opposite Island No.10--and for the idea of which I am indebted to Gen. Schuyler Hamilton--was completed by Col. Bissell's Engineer regiment, and four steamers were brought through on the night of the sixth. The heavy batteries I had thrown up below Tiptonville completely commanded the lowest point of the high ground on the Tennessee shore, entirely cutting off the enemy's retreat by water; his retreat by land has never been possi
ten P. M., the rebels are already in the town, and within musket-shot of our anchorage, another proof of the intimate knowledge they possess of all our movements. Gen. Wright sent his compliments to Gen. Trapier this evening, informing him officially of what he had done, inviting him to come and reoccupy the town, and requesting him to take care of the women and children remaining. This message was courteously replied to by Gen. Trapier or Col. Davis, I which. Mayport, Wednesday, P. M., April 9. At six o'clock this morning, the evacuating fleet, in all eleven sail, got under way in regular order, and started down the St. John's River, a part bound to St. Augustine, and a portion to Fernandina. The vessels formed a long line, the United States steamer Ottawa, Senior Lieutenant Commanding T. H. Stevens, leading off, with the army transports Cosmopolitan and Belvidere in her wake. These steamers towed the schooners Chas. M. Neal, James G. Stille, Rachel S. Miller, and Magnum. B
Doc. 126.-the fall of Fort Pulaski, Ga. April 11, 1862. On Wednesday, April ninth, the batteries on Tybee being completed, order was given to open fire on the following morning, (Thursday,) April tenth. The following special and general orders explain themselves: General orders--no. 17. headquarters United States forces, Tybee Island, Ga., April 9, 1862. The batteries established against Fort Pulaski will be manned and ready for service at break of day to-morrow. The signal to begin the action will be one gun from the right mortar of battery Halleck, (two thousand four hundred yards from the work,) fired under the direction of Lieut. Horace Porter, Chief of Ordnance; charge of mortar eleven pounds, charge of shell eleven pounds, elevation fifty-five degrees, and length of fuse twenty-four seconds. This battery (two thirteen-inch mortars) will continue firing at the rate of fifteen minutes to each mortar alternately, varying the charge of mortars and length of f