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Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863., Chapter 15: (search)
ry little disposition to come into a square fight. Colonel Wattles, of the First Indian regiment, who was sent out on tht it was not much, if any, superior to the force under Colonel Wattles. Well, the two forces having met, a fight or the fligops to commence the attack, which they did very soon. Colonel Wattles did not, however, commence the attack directly in fronin the engagement, but while on their way down to join Colonel Wattles. They expected to find our troops at a certain place, a messenger came in and reported that the force under Colonel Wattles had been fighting the enemy at Green Leaf, and were fahaurtie with two hundred men-mostly Indians to relieve Colonel Wattles. But the reinforcements had not marched more than halgement occurred, when they were met by the force under Colonel Wattles returning to this post. The enemy and our troops had y, and he was not at all satisfied with the conduct of Colonel Wattles. The enemy's pickets and ours were in swimming tog
Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863., Chapter 19: (search)
. These riotous demonstrations in the North, I have no doubt, give great encouragement to the enemy, and will have a tendency to prolong the war. Since the recent great victories of our armies from the East to the far West, the enemy, like a drowning man, are willing to catch at a straw. Though the rioters may greatly assist the enemy by keeping many of our troops at home who should be at the front, yet the riots will prove a weak straw for the enemy to cling to. Colonels Phillips and Wattles came in on the 30th from Fort Gibson, with a smaller escort and a number of the wounded from the battle of Honey Springs. They do not furnish any additional information in regard to that battle. From conversations with several other parties, I am satisfied that the account which I have written out is substantially correct. Had I gone more into details, I should have given greater prominence to the part which Colonel Phillips' brigade took in the engagement. I should like to see not only
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, chapter 49 (search)
President, besides his message, sent to Congress a secret communication. I doubt-but it may be so. Gen. Hood is here, on crutches, attracting no attention, for he was not successful. Judge Campbell, Assistant Secretary of War, said to Mr. Wattles, a clerk, to-day, that we were now arrived at the last days of the Confederacy. Mr. Wattles told me that the judge had been convinced, as far back as 1863,, that the cause was nearly hopeless. Some 1200 of Fitz Lee's cavalry passed througMr. Wattles told me that the judge had been convinced, as far back as 1863,, that the cause was nearly hopeless. Some 1200 of Fitz Lee's cavalry passed through the city at 2 P. M. Gen. Longstreet has been ordered by Gen. Lee to attack Sheridan. He telegraphs back from north of the city that he cannot find them, and this body of cavalry is ordered to reconnoiter their position. I know not how many more men Fitz Lee has in his division, but fear at least half have passed. March 16 Clouds and sunshine; warm. Splendid rainbow last evening. We have nothing new in the papers from any quarter. Sheridan's position is not known yet, though it m
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 13 (search)
is men. Arrived upon the ground, Rabb's battery was placed in position with the customary promptitude of its youthful commander, and at once the six mouths of the fierce spiteful pieces were heard barking away at the foe who had retired into the woods — giving forth music that was truly inspiring. The Eleventh and the Sixth were formed into line of battle on the right of the position occupied by the Second, and close up to the woods. Soon, also, the First and Third Indian regiments, Cols. Wattles and Phillips, arrived upon the ground, and were placed upon the left, with orders from Gen. Blunt to sweep the woods in a wide circle in that direction and find the enemy — the Sixth and Eleventh advancing simultaneously on the right. All went ahead, and some skirmishing ensued at different points, but no considerable force of the enemy was overtaken. Again they had fled. What the casualties of yesterday's affair have been is not yet known. Four of the Kansas Second, slain in the a
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 26 (search)
with the same result. Observing that the enemy had now thrown a large force upon my centre and right, I directed the infantry of the First division to enter the woods and engage them, which order was executed with promptness, Colonel Weer leading the Tenth and Thirteenth Kansas regiments of his brigade upon the right, a portion of the Kansas Second, (dismounted,) under command of Capt. S. J. Crawford; the right wing of the Kansas Eleventh, under Col. Ewing, and the First Indian, under Col. Wattles, upon the left, the Twentieth Iowa regiment advancing upon the left of the Indians; the left wing of the Kansas Eleventh, under Lieut.-Col. Moonlight, supporting Rabb's and Hopkins's batteries. The First Iowa, Tenth Illinois, Eighth Missouri, and the first battalion of the Second Wisconsin cavalry, under Colonel Wickersham, and the Third Wisconsin cavalry, under Major Calkins, were directed to proceed on my extreme right, to watch any flank movement of the enemy that might be attempted i
The Daily Dispatch: may 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 18 (search)
iots engaged. The former were reinforced and this protracted the contest, but at last they fled. McBride took three or four hundred prisoners and a number of wagons, army stores, etc — The battle, our informant says, began last Sunday week. The stirring events east of us have fixed attention in that quarter so that the important scenes in Missouri are over looked. Kansas city was visited by patriots lately, and as the narrator graphically expresses it, was "cleaned out" A party of Stand Wattles men eighteen in number, made an attack upon four hundred Federals encamped at the lead mines. This was a night attack, and the Federals fled unusual. The assailants gathered the wagons, some machinery and other, property, set them on fire an alert before their small numbers could be ascertained Hardly a day passes in Missouri without a skirmish or battle, and the Federals are leaving. This may be one reason why they have come down into Arkansas. Gen. Sterling Price. The army cor