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The Daily Dispatch: April 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], $25 reward. (search)
nate, of course, that Beauregard and Johnston did not wait for us to perfect our pleasing arrangements. When the rebels marched out from Corinth a couple of brigades (rumored to be under the command of Breckenridge) had taken this road, and thus easily and without molestation reached the bluffs of Lick Creek, commanding Stuart's position. During the attack on Prentiss, Stuart's brigade was formed along the road, the left resting near the Lick Creek ford, the right, 71st Ohio, Col. Rodney Mason, (late Ass't Adj't-General of Ohio, and Colonel of the 2d Ohio at Manassas.) being nearest Prentiss. The first intimation they had of disaster to their right was the partial conization of firing. An instant afterwards muskets were seen glinting among the leaves, and presently a rebel column emerged from a band in the road, with banners flying and moving at double-quick down the road toward them. Their supports to the left were further off than the rebels, and it was at once seen tha