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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc. 60. battle of Elkin's ford, Arkansas. (search)
division (General Slocum's), except the Seventy-seventh Ohio and two companies First Iowa cavalry, were engaged. On that of the rebels, two brigades of Marmaduke's division. On the afternoon of the second instant, General Steele ordered General Salomon to take and hold this ford. Thereupon General Salomon dispatched the forces referred to under command of Colonel William E. McLean, of the Forty-third Indiana infantry. Colonel McLean made a forced march, arriving at the river after darkGeneral Salomon dispatched the forces referred to under command of Colonel William E. McLean, of the Forty-third Indiana infantry. Colonel McLean made a forced march, arriving at the river after dark, seizing the ford, and crossed his command. A squadron of cavalry was sent forward as advance pickets, while the Thirty-sixth Iowa infantry, Colonel C. W. Kittredge commanding; Forty-third Indiana infantry, Major W. W. Norris commanding; and Battery E, Second Missouri light artillery, Lieutenant Peetz commanding, encamped near the bank of the river. In his report of the affair, Colonel McLean says: The day after my arrival, occasional firing along our picket lines, and skirmishing in fr