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authorities: the United States arsenal being uninjured, and whatever Rebel stores were there falling into our hands; but six steamboats were completely burned by Price, who had Leen in chief command here, with several railroad cars; while their three pontoon-bridges and two locomotives, though also fired by them, were partially saved. Steele, moving parallel with Davidson, was opposite the city, when it was evacuated and given up, and entered it late that evening: the enemy making for Arkadelphia too rapidly to be overtaken by our jaded horses, to say nothing of our men. Steele says his entire loss to or by the enemy during this campaign did not exceed 100; yet he had but 7,000 of his 12,000 when he started that morning to enter Little Rock. True, he had left many guarding hospitals and trains; but he had been reenforced by two brigades: so that his losses by disease must have been fearful. He had taken 1,000 prisoners. Ere this, Gen. Blunt, pursuing the motley Rebel horde
rch 23-4. southward from Little Rock with 7,000 men, almost simultaneously with Banks's advance to Alexandria; Gen. Thayer, with the Army of the Frontier, possibly 5,000 strong, having left Fort Smith the day previous, expecting to join him at Arkadelphia; while Col. Clayton, with a small force, advanced from Pine Bluff on Steele's left. Heavy rains, bad roads, swollen streams, and the absence of bridges, impeded movements and deranged calculations on all hands; so that Steele, after waiting two days at Arkadelphia, pressed on April 1. without him. Since it crossed the Saline, the Rebel cavalry, under Marmaduke and Shelby, had skirmished sharply with our advance; and attempts to stop it at river-crossings and other difficult passes were often made, but generally baffled by flanking. Sterling Price, with a considerable force of Rebel infantry, barred Steele's way April 10. at Prairie d'anne; and an artillery fight was kept up for some hours, till darkness closed it; when the e