Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 4.
Frank Moore, Ed.

How the battle of Pea-Ridge was won.--A private letter from the West contains the following interesting paragraph:

The battle of Pea-Ridge was the best fighting during the war. It was not generalship but soldiership that won it. At the close of the second day all the leading officers except Sigel and Dodge were disheartened, and regarded a surrender as a foregone conclusion. But the men had just got up to the right pitch, and, around the camp-fires on that weary night, they did not have the faintest idea of being whipped, but universally said:

To-morrow we will finish up this business and whip these fellows out. “So they did, through clear Northern pluck, and nothing else.”