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Indiana (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
h praise cannot be awarded. All did their duty well and nobly. Men of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana mingled their blood upon the same field, and for the same worthy cause. For their deeds of valor upon the field of Praibrave and noble soldier, was killed in the early part of the battle. My troops all did well, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Missouri, side by side, fired by the truest test, their loyalty and love of country. Colonel Houston, commanding Sg and brilliant charges of the infantry, will render you that praise and honor which is justly your due. Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Missouri, your native States, are proud of their noble sons. I, who witnessed your gallant daring in evWhen they ran upon Gen. Herron they caught a tartar. With an Iowa General to direct, and Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana troops to execute, tile capture of six thousand men, even though twenty thousand were pitted against them, was no easy t
Washington County, Ark. (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
ers, are wounded. It was a hard-fought battle, and a complete victory. S. R. Curtis, Major-General Commanding. Official report of Colonel Weer. headquarters Second brigade, First division, army of frontier, camp at Cane Hill., Washington Co., Ark., Dec. 12, 1862. Lieutenant-Colonel Moonlight, Chief of Staff: Colonel: Having just received the reports of the subordinate commanders, I hasten to submit to the General Commanding an account of the part taken by this brigade in the battle of Prairie Grove, Washington County, Arkansas, on Sunday December seventh, 1862. The Third Indian regiment (Cherokee) had previous to the action been ordered to protect the train some miles distant, so that we went into the engagement as follows: Tenth Kansas regiment, Major H. H. Williams, commanding three hundred and eighty-seven men--company I being absent on detached service. First Kansas battery, Lieut. Marcus D. Tenny, commanding, ninety-five men. Third Indian Regiment, Adj
Wilson's Creek (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
the morning of December third, I was encamped, with the Second and Third divisions of the army of the frontier, at Wilson's Creek, Mo., and there received your despatch announcing the advance of the rebel force under Gen. Hindman, and ordering me to You have undoubtedly received ere this pretty full particulars of the fight at this place on Sunday last. I left Wilson's Creek to help Blunt as the rebels were pressing him hard, and had marched one hundred and ten miles in three days, with then forces in driving it back, the battle of Prairie Grove will take no secondary rank, as compared with that of either Wilson's Creek or Pea Ridge; in fact, that history will record it as the battle, thus far, in the war of the rebellion, west and norppi and Arkansas Rivers, in its effects upon that whole section of the Union. Close upon the heels of the battles of Wilson's Creek and Pea Ridge, the Federal armies fell back from the fields of those actions. Now, the army of the frontier, under t
Nassau River (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
to three thousand; while our own, probably, will reach one thousand. On the field of Prairie Grove the enemy were making the last desperate struggle to get back into Missouri or perish in the effort, of which we have heard so much. Staking all upon a cast of the die, they have lost! Said Hindman, in the Address to his troops, three days before the battle: our country will be ruined if we fail. They did fail, and have ingloriously fled — back over the mountains from whence they came! Nassau. Chicago Journal account. headquarters army of the frontier, Rhea's Mills, Ark., Sunday, Dec. 7, 1862. Death has reaped a terrible harvest to-day. The battle of Prairie Grove will long be remembered by the people of the West, and it will fill a conspicuous place in the future history of this cruel and unholy war. Since the battle of Cane Hill the forces of General Blunt have been occupying a radius of country of some sixteen miles, comprising Dutch Town Mills, Boonsboro, or C
Arkansas (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
Doc. 24.-the battle of Prairie Grove, Ark. Official report of General Blunt. headquarters army of the frontier, Rhea's Mills, Ark.,estimated. The stake was an important one. With your defeat, Western Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, and the Indian country would have been the aged, as we afterward learned, General Frost's whole division, two Arkansas regiments, etc., and with the aid of the batteries above named, hieave no doubt upon the subject that the united rebel forces in Western Arkansas, at least twenty-five thousand strong, under the command of Hi Cane Hill, and Rhea's Mills, the great wheat and corn district of Arkansas. General Salamon's brigade occupied Rhea's Mills; the other two brfore stated, marched some fifteen miles and attacked a regiment of Arkansas troops (the First) camped for the night on the banks of the Illino is a beautiful open valley lying between these hills, which forms Arkansas, running east to west some five miles long and one mile wide, bord
Mississippi (United States) (search for this): chapter 26
. It is confidently believed that, in the important results to flow from it to the Union cause, if not in the obstinacy and desperation of the conflict on the part of the reb<*> army, and the gallant and successful daring of the Union forces in driving it back, the battle of Prairie Grove will take no secondary rank, as compared with that of either Wilson's Creek or Pea Ridge; in fact, that history will record it as the battle, thus far, in the war of the rebellion, west and north of the Mississippi and Arkansas Rivers, in its effects upon that whole section of the Union. Close upon the heels of the battles of Wilson's Creek and Pea Ridge, the Federal armies fell back from the fields of those actions. Now, the army of the frontier, under the command of General Blunt, holds its position further south than any other has penetrated the enemy's country in this region, and is expected to advance upon the foe with as little delay as may be practicable. The brilliant victory of Cane Hi
Fort Wayne (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
ught battle, (Gen. Blunt,) it need hardly be said, of course, that he was, where he always is, in the very thickest of the fight, when his presence is at all needed. His first act, as previously stated, on reaching the field, was to place his artillery, passing a long distance in front of the enemy, nearly up to Herron's command, to do so at the most suitable points, as well as to communicate with that officer. There Rabb's and Tenny's and Hopkins's batteries — the latter captured at Old Fort Wayne--soon opened a terrible and destructive fire upon the foe, and drove him back into the woods at every point where he had come out from beneath its cover. Some of the little howitzers, too, soon joined in the chorus of the cannon, and the enemy danced to it in a most lively manner — back from the front! When, subsequently, our infantry were about entering the woods, Gen. Blunt with his staff rode up to the crest of the hill, near the house of one Morton, to observe as far as was practicab
Prairie Grove (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
For their deeds of valor upon the field of Prairie Grove, their native States may well be proud of , army of the frontier, battle-field of Prairie Grove, Ark., December 9. General: In reviewing t die. Your noble conduct upon the field of Prairie Grove, as also upon other occasions, gives evide Blunt and Herron, from the battle ground, Prairie-Grove, near Fayetteville, Arkansas: Our loss on Cane Hill. General Herron remains at Prairie Grove burying the dead and taking care of the woeadquarters Twentieth regiment Wis. Vols., Prairie Grove, twelve miles South of Fayetteville, Ark.dquarters Nineteenth Iowa volunteers, camp Prairie Grove, December 10, 1862. To Colonel William Orm Third division army of the frontier, camp Prairie Grove, December 15, 1862. You have undoubtedlan's trained sharpshooters on the field of Prairie Grove. Late in the day the enemy, having graduahad chosen on which to meet us. Instead of Prairie Grove, this should be called Grove Prairie, for [3 more...]
Arkansas (United States) (search for this): chapter 26
ation that the entire force of infantry and artillery of Gen. Hindman's army had crossed the Arkansas River, and joined Gen. Marmaduke at Lee's Creek, fifteen miles north of Van Buren, to which pointhave been the prey of the rebel army. Your victory has virtually ended the war north of the Arkansas River. For these results, you are entitled to the plaudits of a grateful country. To the Second and moved off in the night, continuing their retreat to Van Buren, and probably crossing the Arkansas River. Col. McFarland, of the Nineteenth Iowa regiment, is killed. Col. Black of the Thirty-as the battle, thus far, in the war of the rebellion, west and north of the Mississippi and Arkansas Rivers, in its effects upon that whole section of the Union. Close upon the heels of the battles eat army over the mountains again, and will not, probably, make a stand until he reaches the Arkansas River. Generals Blunt and Hindman had an interview the next morning after the battle, at the so
Lee's Creek, Ark. (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
t of General Blunt. headquarters army of the frontier, Rhea's Mills, Ark., Dec. 20, 1862. Major-General S. R. Curtis, Commanding Department of the Missouri: General: I have the honor to report that, on the second instant, and four days subsequent to the battle of Cane Hill, or Boston Mountain, of November twenty-eighth, I obtained reliable information that the entire force of infantry and artillery of Gen. Hindman's army had crossed the Arkansas River, and joined Gen. Marmaduke at Lee's Creek, fifteen miles north of Van Buren, to which point the latter had retreated after the battle of the twenty-eighth ultimo. I further learned that the united forces under Gen. Hindman's command numbered between twenty-five and thirty thousand men, and that he designed advancing upon me in case I did not attack him south of the mountains. Determined to hold my position at Cane Hill, unless driven from it by a superior force, I immediately telegraphed to the Second and Third divisions to co
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