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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 83 (search)
double-quick time by the right flank, and passing through the timber to a small hill, I found the Fifty-ninth Illinois retiring in disorder, having been overwhelmed by vastly superior numbers and a murderous fire from the Louisiana, Arkansas and Cherokee troops. I closed up my line, as soon as the Fifty-ninth passed through, and advancing through the field, changed my line of battle by wheeling to the left, until I got about parallel with the right side of the large field first named; then press estimated as follows: Commander-in-Chief, Major-General Earl Van Dorn. Missouri troops, under Brig.-Gen. Price, about nine thousand. Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas troops, under Brig.-Gen. McCulloch, about thirteen thousand. Choctow, Cherokee, Chickasaw, and other Indian troops, with two white regiments, under Brig.-Gen. Pike, about seven thousand. Estimated aggregate of rebel army under Gen. Van Dorn, thirty thousand. At the hour of reveille, on the morning of the seventh, the