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The Daily Dispatch: March 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], The War. (search)
h of the Federal cavalry was so impetuous that they became mingled with our troops, and there was a free use of sabres and small arms. They could not stand, however, the deadly fire of the Missourians' shot guns. Monday our forces reached their winter quarters to spend the night, while Price's army occupied Cross. Hollows, distant two and a half miles. Young's Texas regiment camped with us. The next morning we marched to Cross Hollows and encamped in an open field. This day Rector's and Mitchell's regiments joined us. The latter regiment had marched 45 miles without halting in twenty-four hours. Ben McCulloch arrived and was met with such a storm of enthusiasm as seldom greets any man. It made his men almost wild to see him once more, and that, too, when placed in such a perilous position without their General. Such a deafening cheer as the Louisiana regiment gave him has seldom been heard. Baring his head, while his eagle eye lighted up with an unwonted fire, he remarked, "Men,