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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 100 (search)
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99.-battle of Hartsville, Mo.
Report of General Warren.
headquarters, Houston, Mo., Jan. 16, 1863.
Colonel: I have the honor to report the operations of my force against the combined troops of General Marmaduke and Colonel Porter.
Immediately on the receipt of a copy of the telegram from Brig.-General Brown, commanding at Springfield, January ninth, informing Major-Gen. Curtis of the advance of a column of six thousand rebels toward Springfield, I ordered Colonel Merrill, of the Twenty-first Iowa, senior officer, to move with seven hundred men, infantry, cavalry, and one section of artillery, by a forced march, to Springfield, to report to the commanding officer there.
My own health incapacitated me from the fatigue of the expedition.
For greater speed and progress, I sent with them a heavy transportation train for the use of the infantry.
They reached Hartsville at six o'clock A. M., Saturday, and learned that Porter's column had passed through, taking the Mars