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Pea Ridge, battle of.
When the Confederates under General Price fled into Arkansas in February, 1861, General Curtis and a strong force of Nationals pursued him. Curtis crossed the Arkansas line on Feb. 18 and drove Price and his followers over the Boston Mountains.
He then fell back and took a position near Pea Ridge, a spur of the Ozark Mountains.
Meanwhile Price had been joined by Gen. Earl Van Dorn, a dashing young officer who was his senior in rank, and now took chief command of the Confederates.
Forty heavy guns thundered a welcome to the young general.
Soldiers!
cried the general, behold your leader!
He comes to show you the way to glory and immortal renown.
He comes to hurl back the minions of the despots at Washington, whose ignorance, licentiousness, and brutality are equalled only by their craven natures.
They come to free your slaves,
Battle of Pea Ridge. lay waste your plantations, burn your villages, and abuse your loving wives and beautiful daughters.
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Price , Sterling 1809 -1867 (search)
Price, Sterling 1809-1867
Military officer; born in Prince Edward county, Va., Sept. 11,
Sterling Price. 1809; was a member of Congress from Missouri (where he settled in 1830) in 1845; colonel of Missouri cavalry in the war against Mexico; and was made a brigadier-general and military governor of Chihuahua in 1847.
He was governor of Missouri from 1853 to 1857, and president of the State convention in February, 1861.
He was made major-general of the Missouri militia in May, and served the Confederacy throughout the Civil War. At the close of the war he went to Mexico, but returned to Missouri in 1866, and died in St. Louis, Sept. 29, 1867.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rives , William Cabell 1793 - (search)
Rives, William Cabell 1793-
Diplomatist; born in Nelson county, Va., May 4, 1793; was educated at Hampden-Sidney and William and Mary colleges; studied law under the direction of Jefferson, a member of the State constitutional convention in 1816; of the State legislature in 1817-19 and in 1822, and of Congress in 1823-29; was minister to France in 1829-32; and United States Senator in 1832-45.
He was again minister to France in 1849-53.
He sympathized with the secession movement, and in February, 1861, was a member of the peace congress.
After Virginia joined the Confederacy, he became a member of the Confederate Congress.
He died near Charlottesville, Va., April 25, 1868.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sibley , Henry Hopkins 1816 -1886 (search)
Sibley, Henry Hopkins 1816-1886
Military officer; born in Nachitoches, La., May 25, 1816; graduated at West Point in 1838, entering the dragoons and serving in the Seminole War. He also served in the war against Mexico.
In February, 1861, he was major of dragoons, and was serving against Indians in New Mexico; but in May he joined the Confederates, accepted the commission of brigadier-general in their army, and led a force from Texas for the conquest of New Mexico.
At Fort Craig he was repulsed (June 5, 1862) and was driven over the mountains into Texas.
In 1869-74 he was in the service of the Khedive of Egypt.
He died in Fredericksburg, Va., Aug. 23, 1886.
Slidell, John 1793-
Diplomatist; born in New York City in 1793; graduated at Columbia College in 1810, and settled, as a lawyer, in New Orleans, where, in 1829-30, he was United States district attorney.
He served in the State legislature, and from 1843 to 1845 was in Congress.
In the latter year he was appointed United States minister to Mexico, and in 1853 was elected to the United States Senate, where he remained, by re-election, until February, 1861.
He was a very conspicuous Confederate, and withdrew from the United States Senate to engage in furthering the cause.
He was sent as a commissioner of the Confederacy to France, in the fall of 1861, when he was captured by a cruiser of the
John Slidell. United States under command of Capt. Charles Wilkes (q. v.). After his release from Fort Warren, he sailed for England, Jan. 1, 1862, where he resided until his death, July 29, 1871.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Toombs , Robert 1810 -1885 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vassar , Matthew 1792 -1868 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vogdes , Israel 1816 -1889 (search)
Vogdes, Israel 1816-1889
Military officer; born in Willistown, Pa., Aug. 4, 1816; graduated at West Point in 1837, where he remained two years assistant Professor of Mathematics.
He entered the artillery, and served in the Seminole War. In May, 1861, he was made major.
He gallantly defended Fort Pickens (q. v.) from February to October, 1861, when he was made prisoner in the night attack on Santa Rosa Island.
He was active in the operations on Folly and Morris islands against forts Wagner and Sumter, and commanded the defences of Norfolk and Portsmouth in 1864-65.
In April, 1865, he was brevetted brigadier-general, United States army, and in 1881 was retired.
He died in New York, Dec. 7, 1889.