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ns with a heavy force appeared on Price's front and forced back a considerable body of new troops, but was checked in turn and driven back, with a loss of nine pieces of artillery, by the First Missouri brigade, the Third Louisiana regiment and Whitfield's Texas legion. But one reflection saddened every heart, says Gen. Dabney H. Maury, in an account of the battle. Gen. Henry Little had fallen dead in the very execution of the advance which had won the bloody field. He was conversing with Genof his heart were amidst the victorious shouts of his charging brigade. The battle, adds General Maury, had been brief, but was one of the fiercest and bloodiest of the war. The Third Louisiana lost nearly half its men killed and wounded, and Whitfield's legion suffered almost as severely. It was these two commands and a little Arkansas battalion that charged and captured the nine cannon. General Price was elated at the victory he had gained, and was at first disposed to remain in Iuka and