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The Daily Dispatch: May 17, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
and captured by the enemy, together with the escort of 480 men, who suddenly found themselves in the hands of a superior force, and made little resistance. At Camden Steele soon found the rebels, about 8,000 strong, (cavalry,) in his rear; and 240 wagons, dispatched from Camden towards Pine Bluff for stores, with an escort of 1,600 men, were captured by the enemy. The steamer Alamo, with twenty tons of ammunition for Steele and his army, was sunk forty miles below Little Rock by coming in collision with another steamer. The pilot who had charge of the boat was put under arrest on suspicion of treachery, but subsequently was released. Steele couldSteele could find no stores to subsist his troops on, and had to reduce their allowance to quarter rations. As the movement of Gen Steele was to be cooperative with the main one of Gen Banks, which had failed, there remained no course but to return to Little Rock. Gen Price undertook to retain Gen Steele at Camden, while Gen Marmadu