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The Daily Dispatch: August 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 14 (search)
The enemy being largely reinforced, and having now at least three thousand men, jumped over into the cornfield, and Capt. Plummer's gallant band was imminently threatened with annihilation.--They retreated rapidly, firing as they did so, when Lieut. Dubois, having got his battery under headway on the hill, near the Missouri volunteers, seeing the position of affairs on the opposite side of the valley, threw in the most precise manner several shells, which exploded just as they reached the dense forth loud-mouthed thunder, were on the point of having their efforts crowned with success, and again drove them, with great loss, down the slope on the south side of the hill. Capt. Totten's ammunition was now nearly exhausted, and placing Dubois' battery upon the hill at the North end of the valley, Major Sturgis ordered the ambulances to move towards town. The infantry and Totten's full battery followed in good order, and were not pursued by the enemy, who was evidently glad to be let