From the Trans Mississippi.
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Mr Wagner, a bearer of dispatches from
Gen E. Kirby Smith, has arrived in
Mobile and gives the following information about the battles of the 8th and 9th on Redrive:
A complete defeat of the enemy, with a loss estimated by
Gen. Taylor at eight thousand in killed, wounded, and missing, but their own admissions put their loss at fifteen thousand.
We captured twenty-one pieces of artillery, ten thousand stand of small arms, twelve hundred mules, four hundred wagons, and a large quantity of stores.
Our loss is officially stated at twenty-two hundred killed and wounded.
Gens. Mouton and
Greene were killed.
Three
Yankee Generals are reported killed.
The enemy's force was thirty two thousand.
Cars from eighteen to twenty thousand.
Gen. Kirby Smith directed operations.
Gen. Taylor commanded the centre, and
Gens Walker and
Mouton the wings.
On Sunday, the 17th, the enemy attempted to cross the
Red river, and were attacked again and whipped worse than before, but no particulars have been received.
Thirty steamers of all classes ascended the river, and were all above
Alexandria, with no probability of escape.
Ten or twelve boats were already blown up or burned to avoid capture.
Mr Wagner says soldiers and citizens report that
Price seemed to have fallen back in apparent disorder, abandoning everything.
When the
Yankees reached his trains they broke ranks and scattered to plunder.
Price turned and out them to pieces, capturing four thousand prisoners, two hundred and fifty wagons, all their ammunition, baggage and supplies.
It is reported also that
Steele had evacuated
Little Rock, falling rack towards the
Mississippi river.
This story is corroborated by Yankee accounts on the
Mississippi.
