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The Daily Dispatch: September 22, 1863., [Electronic resource], A Glance at the condition of Affairs in East Tennessee. (search)
purpose of protecting immense wagon trains, which were immediately sent to the vicinity of Pea Ridge. This being consummated, one division followed the trains while the remainder of the corps went down the Lafayette road to Leak's Springs. Here they met Gen. Pegram, who, with the 6th Georgia, Col. Hart and Col. Rucker's Legion, Col. Rucker commanding, gave them battle. The fight lasted some three hours. The casualties were small in Gen. Pegram's command--four killed and ten wounded. Capt. Geo. P. Yae, of Gen. P.'s staff, was slightly wounded. Of the Yankees, twelve were killed and twenty wounded. Our forces fell back a few hundred yards, when the Yankees took fright and retreated in confusion. They pressed citizens to guide them out to the heights of Pea Ridge. They scattered through the cornfields like partridges — officers and all — in confusion, remarking at every step that "the rebels had them surrounded." I omitted to speak of the engagement that Col. Scott's cavalry brigad