Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-03-12
The Advance into Arkansas.

General Curtis seems to be doing goot
deal OF thework that was hoped and prom
ised from General Lane and General Hun
ter. He has got the start of those officers
and Is now only waiting for supplies t,
push on more rapidly and energeticalll
than ever. He first routed Price at Suga
Creek, in Benton county; then he drov,
him from Bentonville; then he pursued
him to Cross Hollows, where he had re
solved to make stand. Price, reinforced
by McCulloch, appears, however to have
thought better of it, and made a run in
stead of stand. Curtis followed him tC
Fayetteville; but Price and his men, aftel
setting fire to the town, fed, and Curtis's
forces marched in among the smoking
ruins.
Fayetteville was one of the prettiest and
most thriving towns in Arkansas. 1t is
the seat of justice of Washington county,
the second county in the State in popula-
ton, and one of the most fertile, being in
the heart of the best wheat and corn
growing region. The people are intelli-
gent, and they heldon to the Union cause
as long as they dared to do so. The last
important Union demonstration heard of
in the State, at the time of Secession, was
in Fayetteville. The town contains near
ly two thousand inhabitants; the county,
in 1860, had 1862 inhabitants, of whom
only 1893 were slaves. Between 1850 and
1860, the free population increased 6,409,
and the slave population only 294
1t is into this thriving region that Gen
eral Curtis has penetrated. He is fully
forty miles beyond the Missouri line, and
is not more than forty miles from the
town of Van Buren,, on the Arkansas Riv-
er. On his right, as he marches south
ward, is the Cherokee Nation, where Al
bert Pike has been laboring in behalf of
the rebel cause, with, however, small sue
ces. John Ross, the Chief of the Nation,
will bring it to the Union side as soon as
be finds the Federal forces are sufficient to
sustain him. There seems to be no serious
in the way of General Curtis's
march to Van Buren. The rebels had fed
across what are known as the Boston
which are small affairs when
with the mountains of Penn
;ylvania. These Boston Mountains, like |
Ill the mountainous regions of the South, |
ire full of Union men, and the mountain !
ooys' are the objects of the fury of the /
'ebels. A letter lately found in the camp
If General Price, dated Dover, Pope !
county, Ark, Dec. 18th 1861, and written /
,y one James L. Adams, who wanted
Price to give him "a situation as a sur
;eon," says:
Our men over the Boston mountains
zen and swing the mountain boys who
oppose Southern men; they have in camp
hirty, and in the Burrowville Jail lseventy-
wo, in the Clinton jail thirty-ive, and
lave sent twenty-seven to Little Rock
We took up some as low down as Dover.
We will kill all we get, certain; every one
S so many less. hope you will soon get
lelp enough to clear out the last one in
our State. If you know them they
ught to be killed, as the older they grow
he more stubborn they get"
One can imagine how ''the mountain
'oys who oppose Southern men" will well
ONE the army of General Curtis, after
he villanous treatment they have receiv-
d from them. Some of them" saws DIR.
Idams, were taken "as low down as
)over," and Dover is more than half way
rom Fayetteville to Little Rock. Truly
the mountain boys" must be pretty ex-
ensively organized, when they run down
he mountains into the very plain of the
.rkansas, about fifty miles off.
If General Curtis gets to Van Buren, he
lay not, for want of steam boats and gun
oats, be able to move on the Arkansas
ver. But he will be able to stop the
My important and good means of COM
between Little Rock and the
Vest, Including the Indian Nations
here are no railroads in Arkansas, ex-
ept short one in the eastern part of the
tate, and commerce is chiefly carried on
y the rivers. The possession of Van
uren and of Fort Smith, few miles
Oove, on the other side of the river, will
title the hitherto unsettled loyalty of
he Indian Nations-CheroIees, Creeks,
Choctaws and Chickasaws-
no have lately been tampered with to
'me effect, by the rebel enissaries.-
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