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Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 3 1 Browse Search
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Greer's men went scrambling into the woods to their horses at the creek. Colonel Churchill was soon mounted, but without a saddle, and rapidly rallied his men. McCulloch and McIntosh at the north end were soon in their saddles. Lyon having crossed the creek above the hill, moving down the valley, came in range of Bloody hill. Price had galloped up the hill to take command of Cawthorn's men, who were holding their ground as well as they could, when Slack came up with Hughes' regiment and Thornton's battalion, and formed on the left of Cawthorn. Meanwhile, Reid's Arkansas battery on the east of Wilson's creek opened upon Sigel's line, which was forming west of the creek, in the Confederate rear. To Price's support, in front, other commands came rapidly up (among them Guibor's battery), aggregating about 3,000 men, with four pieces of artillery. Totten's battery, six pieces, directed his third shot against Woodruff's battery, four pieces, which replied promptly, and the duel was
academy, they battled and endured for the cause of the South until the end. Lieutenant-Colonel Jordan was killed by a shell on the ramparts of Port Hudson during the siege of that place. The Twelfth surrendered with the rest when that place capitulated, and many of them were again prisoners of war, July 9, 1863. Adjt. W. L. Hemingway and Capt. H. L. W. Johnson, besides many of its men, were killed in the siege. Major Walker became lieutenantcol-onel, Capt. T. C. Smith, major, and Lieut. John R. Thornton succeeded Adjutant Hemingway. . . . Upon the capitulation, the non-commissioned officers and men of the garrison were paroled, but the officers were sent as prisoners of war to Johnson's island, among them Adjt.-Gen. John R. Fellows, of Camden. Major Fellows was originally from New York, and subsequently became district attorney of the city of New York. He, with General Beall, sustained a long and painful imprisonment. Fellows resisted all importunities of relatives that he take