The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1861-11-21

Saturday.
The Firs' Cavalry an the March.
We publish the following, from one of
our correspondents in the First Iowa Cav.
airy, to give our readers an idea of the
experience and sensations of our troops on
the march to Springfield, and not for the
news, which has been anticipated through
other channels:
SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, Nov SCI.
DEAR GATE: Your old familiar face i.
seen no more in the tents of Company A,
a. heretofore, TO tell us of affairs AT home.
and, instead of the WIS. we listen to the
thousand reports Of busy questionable
mongers, till We all exclaim. with old
Gradgrind, Give us taets' facts, sir, are
what we want Gire us facts
We left Jefferson City soon after land.
Ing there. with orders to join GEM Pope.
via Sedalia, and after marching twelve
days, we Joined him Mt Humansyille. in
Hickey county, Mo-. and after refreshing
ourselves WITT rest OF one hoar, we were
placed IN the advance Ut his division. on
forced march 10 Springfield. The order
came to leave all extra baggage, with the
tents, &c, md TO murch night and day.
THIS locked something like war. and We
all
al hopeu soon 10 see some Secesh We
were allowed 10 halt In a field &c corn NJ
about midnight, to feed our horses. and
We resumed our march till ten clock the
next day, when the General allowed us 20
matt three hours, to cook three days ra-
tons. About one o clock, orders came TO
US to leave all our sick men. disabled hor.
ses and all our baggage, and to take full
supply Of cartridges, as we would proba-
bly, have to fight our way into Springfield.
as 1t was then surrounded by Gen. Prices
army of $4,000, while Gen Fremont was
contending with him, with $4,000. We
all felt ertain that now something was
up and We were proud to learn that our
battalion would be in the van of General
Pope's forces, with Company A in the ad .
vance. We took up our line of march
about niehtfall, and passed Gen. MKin.
strys brigade, with the artillery and infan.
try in our rear, and pressed on, over rough
roads, through the darkness. and halted u
miles from Springfield We there learn.
ed, much TO our chagrin, that Fremont
forces We're not surrounded ut all but that
Fremont was superseded by Gen. Hunter,
and that Gen. Hunter was lost. A de-.
tan OF ten was made Immediately from our
battalion, under charge of a lieutenant to
hunt up Gen Hunter After short rest
we rushed into Springfield, as II we were
all bearers of special dispatches, and a. a
result we had two of our company un-
horsed and several horses crippled. Here
nothing very unusual attracted our
attention except that the town was full OF
officers aud the country full of soldiers. -
We found several Brigader Generals, with
their commands here, aud among them we
noticed benr. Pope, Lane, Sigel. Asboth,
Wynan, M klnstry kelton, Davis and
Siurgis. Gen. Hunter was soon found
and reported himself here TO take com.
mand, which he did on the 9th inst. ma.
king ten Generals that we know Of. aside
from others, said to have their command,
here. The next Day after we came here
Gen. Price was out seven miles with abonl
$4,000 men and ITO guns. The day fol.
lowing he was about forty miles Of, en-.
trencbing himself, and uop he Is IN Ar.
kansas, marching en- Lexington, and go
ing to take Cairo"
Gen. Fremont iefi on tie 9Th with lis
body guard ard about one hundred Ind
ans. About the cause Of lis removal We
care no.alng II we are only led forward