The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1862-12-20

him pieces of cannon, and drove him from
the field
On the a8th of November, be fought the
battle of Cane Hill, and on the 7th of De-
cember the BATHS of Fayetteville, or Prairie
Grove
| It is of the Cane Hill engagement that
We now propose to give description.
| The First Division left its camp, ten miles
south of Fort Wayne. on the morning of
/ November eth, and at ten O'Clock on the
morning of the 2eth it had marched thirty
/ five miles, and the advance guard Ga part
of the Second Kansas had reached Cane
! Hill.
The enemy's artillery was strongly post
ed on commanding point. Tie batteries
of Lieut.. Slower and Capt. Rabb were soon
in position, and fierce fight ensued, which
LASTED more than an hour. Major Fisk, of
/ the Cd, had his hat carried away, and his
head scalped by one of the enemy's shells.
! Six companies of the 18th. under Colonel
/ Ewing and Lieut.. Colonel Moonlight, fol-
lowed by the Cd, marched over hill to-
ward the rebels battery, while Maj. Plumb
with four companies proceeded to support
Rabb's battery. Gen. Blunt was with the Cd.
/ Before the movement was completed, the
enemy abandoned his position and retreated
to another eminence.
The whole of Col. Clouds brigade, the
Sd, and part of Col Weer's, the Cd, had
now come up. Gen. Salomon's brigade,
| the 1st, did not come up until the fight at
the town was over.
Hopkins's and Rabb's batteries followed
the enemy, and after half an hours fight,
drove him to third position in the south
part of the town, where his line was dis
covered, extending from east to west for .
| long distance.
Gen. Blunt led our forces by wide de-
tour TO meet the enemy. When he reached
the position, the rebels had again fed. 1t
was new two O'Clock in the afternoon.
Whea the days work was thought to be
over, renewed can nonading was heard to the
southeast.
An account in the ST. Louis Democrat
says:
A part of the Cd Kansas and the Sd In
dian regiment (Col. Phillips) with two
mountain howItzers belonging to the Kan
sas 9th, under the the command of Lieut.
! Updyke, had gone in pursuit, and overta-
ken the enemy at that point-where he had
| again made stand. Immediately such of
/ 18th Kansas, the 9Th Kansas with its two
mountain howizers attached, and Rabb's
and the LIST Kansas battery (LIeut Ten
ney J, started for the new scene of action
Gen. Blunt, as usual leading the column.
The advance OF our forces up the first pre-
cipitous ascent into the mountains was
most obstinately contested by the foe. Here
the services of the Indians were first called
into play, and with telling effect. The sides
of the steep and rocky hill, up which the
road passes, are thickly covered with woods.
From behind the trees on either side of the
road, up along the ascent, the enemy poured
their fire into our troops. Our batteries and
howitzers had found position in an open
space on the right, from which their shot
and she'll were thrown, as nearly as practi-
cable, into the enemy's midst. Phillips s
Indians, calamity led on by IL at excellent Off
Ger, advanced from tree to tree, pouring an
incessant and calling fireinto the foe, and he
finally gave back, step by step, up the steep
and rocky mountain slope. Just then the
11th Kansas came up, with the daring,
dashing Moonlight in the lead, its gallant
Col. Ewing also riding up i'll front about
the same time. At the top of the hill, or
near it, it passed the Indians and drove the
enemy on.
Again half a mile or so further ahead,
another stand was made by the foe, when
the howitZers of the Indian regiment, man
ned by some Of the 9th Kansas men, were
brought quickly to the front, and the bene-
fit of their contents administered to the
rebels-the infantry, both whites and In
dams, firing heavy volleys as they advanced
through the woods, and over the rocks
and thus the fight continued for some six or
eight miles on through the mountains, the
enemy making an obstinate stand as often
at least as once in every mile All this time
General Blunt was at the very head of our
column, urging on the men, directing their
movements, and occasionally :" taking a
crack" himself, with his "Henry's Vol
canic Repeater" which he carried along
through the after part of the day, when OPP
porlunity offered.
The rebels made final stand in a gorge
in the mountains, some pine miles distant
from Cane Hill. Our men falling back, Gen
Blunt led charge in person with three
companies of the 9th Kansas. It was in
this charge that Lieut.. Colonel Jewell was
! killed
The rebels then ran up white flag, and
the fight ended.
Corn is selling at from 25 TO 80 cents pei
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