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s ordered back under cover of Humphreys' battery. Cleburne, with Polk on his right, had met a stern resistance, but after a bloody struggle crushed the Federal line in his front. The Second Arkansas again routed the Twenty-second Indiana, which it had punished so severely at Perryville. Cleburne was now in advance of the troops to his right, and was enfiladed by a battery, which the First Arkansas and Fifth Confederate charged, capturing four of the guns. Here the battle was bloody. General Sill was killed in front of the Second Arkansas, and the regiment captured the Federal hospital. Now the Federals formed a new line, which was assailed by Polk and Liddell and Cleburne's other brigades, and the enemy finally dislodged, but at heavy cost. Lieut.--Col. Donelson McGregor (nephew of Mrs. Andrew Jackson), First Arkansas, lost his life, and Col. Samuel G. Smith, Sixth and Seventh, and Col. John H. Kelly, Eighth, were among the wounded. Lieut.-Col. John E. Murray, Fifth, carried h