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The Daily Dispatch: May 17, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
that Steele's expedition towards Shreveport has returned to Little Rock, Arkansas, "under rather exciting circumstances." The following are t of his precipitous and unexpected return: Gen Steele left Little Rock with some 12,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry, the latter under Gef ammunition for Steele and his army, was sunk forty miles below Little Rock by coming in collision with another steamer. The pilot who had nks, which had failed, there remained no course but to return to Little Rock. Gen Price undertook to retain Gen Steele at Camden, while Gen Marmaduke act off for Little Rock. Steele, to act for the safety of the capital of Arkansas, with its Union population and millions of drmy, broke through the lines of Gen Price, and set out to get to Little Rock in time to save it from Marmaduke, who was also making every exesume his exciting race with Marmaduke. Marmaduke approached Little Rock, throwing shells into the city, on the afternoon of the 1st inst