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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 89 (search)
Washington and Parachifta, in observation of the enemy, about five thousand strong, at Fort Smith, and guarding the approaches east of the Arkansas line, while General Maxcy with two brigades of cavalry, watched those leading through the Indian Territory to North Texas. On the twenty-third March, Steele moved out from Little Rock rchidelphia about the thirty-first. General Cabell was ordered to join Marmaduke. The cavalry was in two divisions, one under Marmaduke, and one under Fagan. General Maxcy was ordered with all his force, except such as was needed to prevent small raids, to hold himself at Logansport, in the extreme south-east corner of Indian Ter of the Washita, for the purpose of cutting off the enemy's supplies in Little Rock and Pine Bluff. Neither direction was followed. On the eighteenth April, Generals Maxcy and Marmaduke fought the enemy — a forage party of about two thousand five hundred strong — at Poison Spring, twelve miles from Camden, dispersing the whole f