The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-04-05
T1lE LATE BATTLE or riA RIDGE


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THE LATE BATTLE OF kkA AlDGk 8.
Lieutenant Colonel Heron, Of the Ninth lows
volunteers, one Of the regiments which bore 90
gallant . part in the actions At Leetown and
Elkhorn, In Arksnsas, {known oficially IS the
battle Of Pea Ridge,) recently arrived In this
city, and is occupying room at the Planters
House. He Is in care OF DR.. Charles A. Pope,
and has promise of a. speedy recovery from
his wound as possible. During one Of the fercest
contests of the pattle, and in which the Ninth
had to struggle against superior force Of the
enemy, q cannon ball passed entirely through
Lieutenant Colonel Herron's horse, and. striking
the riders right ANGLE, produced both a frac-
ture and dslOcation. While thus prostrated on
the field, he fell into the hands of the enemy,
and on the retreat of their army to Van Buren,
he was carried thithcr prisoner, and exchaug-
ed, after two weeks detention, for Col Hebert,
of Louisiana, who was among the csptives taken
by the Union forces. He was as well treated
while in possession of the rebels as their limited
means for hospitality and the courtesies Of war
fare would allow, and met among them several
st. Louisans with whom he was acquainted be-
fore the breaking out Of the war. He saw or
heard of them at the town of Van Buren,, on the
Arkansas river, four miles from Fort Smith
It was on Van Buren, that the enemy directed
their retreat after the fortunes OF the contest at
Pea Ridge went against them, the columns of the
deceased Generals McCniloeh and Mcintosh, tax
irg the route VIA Huntsville, and Van Dorm and
Price, the road through Bentonvic. They made
capital time to Van Buren,, and there effected
q Recommendation Of their defeated and dispirit.
ed followers.
Col. HERON frequently saw and conversed
with Gen. Price, and believes HIM TO be rather
the Dest ana most sensible Q, tue teoei magnates
frice was sho. tnronsh tne ieiS arm win a MIME
oa,,' Az 1h'.'ou rev lhcnes ueioW Tue CHOW
anu y CUT 'n ~, oohe, without causing complete
,.a''uie' Anu at'n was painful anu hiucn sWo'.
y. a,u - i''e ? surgeon hao great
u'. GS ~ ,euucns 'ae inhanlnauop'
u1"' o'ack received mortar wounu IN the
o H'.: auu was ioano e, Tue heiu py federai
s;,' e.. 90, n. ~ nosp.sa' useu .el,pera'
IT, ~; ~. 81, rs" 80 =, '"e 'eDe' "ouiueu-
c. M"r',,,oah
a., sa'o .;o,a a a'u c.,' were uuseu az az
sao pau s,s' .: lo,s SMITH An escor' VI
can ps;na .f,nS .n.r Ieal11s W sae g'ase'
o.n,a ;ns,hnr;;so sssss " an Doer, We
e,,. Sr;n,.s IS ~ ,,h;'i.o NJ w.. H.. - GI,
W. nnnr ~, %, a. ,,n. M ,nes my, ven;
"' Do,n ou tic s'reet, ue"ouhceo mn, ana
ua..io ha1 Iii ~. o%'ayns TUE '9 ms VI .ne
. oA'"e "no"y w AL po,h account. ~ INC oP'h'
40. III ~ ssh W 'ue reoei o.l.e,s was
:a "a. m "a. ''a'ass .nousn, ou' ia'heu
Juu ~. no i'.u az 'ue oon'.ue'ate camps
o.y '"' u"y oe'o'1 , ''c oas'ie' anu was 'eceNeu
, wtn saIu "i';ne.y SAUL, me .nuhqer %
Mn'1n was nearu ~ rue ieaeraI mes, Learn
h;si 1 rn WV an nno 'na' 'ue'f coh'-
I'd ,ha,, ta ,'n,o $50 49, me-, 'e "uo.
~ w III y. 1870, .'y ho m nio'h,hs
anu @ s SUR .ue reuetM troops me Jay pe-
e f,on va" pas rice received
This still left Price subordinate to Van Dorm.
but he thinks the latter has retired or RESIGNED
leaving Price in chief command.
Two thirds of the rebel soldiers were armed
with muskets, many of them of tho Springfield
and Enfield pattern, and having sabre bayonets.
The balance had shot guns and country rifles
with usual variety. A brigade of three regiments
of Louisiana troops had good uniforms Of pray
cloth, but with the remainder of the army uni
forms were few except with the officers They
had forty five pieces of artillery, manv If The
guns being superior to those in the Union army.
who counted, all told. but forty. two pieces The
mules and wagons COMPRISING the commissary
train were better than onr awn Int In ,,ed;ocl
stores and hospital annliances thew were very
deficient.
The rebels generally were mucb d;sn;r;ted -
Their officers studicuslv deceived them az 70 tho
extent of the late reverses Tbev admitted ,ha ~
Fort Donelson had been lost to them with .
garrison of two or three tbops,nd mon lint thew
denied that Columbus had heen evacuated n,
| that the Federal troons had occun;ed Nashv;lle
| The news of the naval enpaoemept in Uamnton
Roads was hnllet;nod tbrongbont tho;r oor,n, ~,
| sheets of n,nar nrin,od ;n 49, $50 III.
represented that six GovcrDmant Essse,s mars
| then destroved-one NJ ,han, ,;,h ,ha on,;no
crew of Eve hundred mon -IS, Ior;s Ron
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SABBATH TRAGEDY AT INDIAN LAKE, ST CLAIR
| COUNTY, lLLINoIs--A HUNTING ExCURsIoN-ON
OF THE PARTY SHOT DEAD.-A horrible affair
occurred between seven and eight o'clock yes
terday morning, at Indian Lake, on the line Of
the ONO and Mississippi Railroad, about five
miles east from St Louis
At III o'clock Saturday night, four young mer
OF this city, Germans, crossed by the Care street
Terry to the Illinois Shore with the view Of hunt
| ing tor ducks and other game in the vicinity Of
the lake named. The youths were John Seant
kraft, George Schmitzmeier, Christian c. Poepel
and Frederick Mueller, of ages ranging from
seventeen to nineteen years. The expedition
resulted in the death of Schmitzmeier at the
hand OF Seantkraft, whose account of the mat
ter is as follows: Having walked to the lake
it till four O'Clock in the morn;ne At the hon,
| they commenced Iookinu for uama and ahou,
seven O'Clock had baprea several birds The
young men then drew together. all their gun.
4 being loaded, and STONED to rest and converse
Poeper was standing and the Others were sit
ting While all were thus good naturally talk
| ing and joking Scbmitzmeier sportively tossed
some fine stones upon Seantkraft, hitting him in
the face, but without inflicting serious pain. He
regarded it as a trivial matter, and in simila,
vein threw back some particles in RETURN
Sehmitzmeier, still in fun, responded by saying
I'm shoot YOU, and rising to his feet levelled
ms gun, which was full cooked, directly al
ssahtkratt The parties were within five yards
OF each other To carry out the amusement
Seantkrait replied, mo you won't" rose and
GREW ms gun, taking deliberate aim at his
a,,sha breast The weapon was half cooked,
an. anu az once alscharged-he not having touched
'he Trigger Inc contents, heavy load OF duck
saot' entered the victims breast, shatterlng tie
uai a"u u ', . nm Inrpugh ana through
hap o'''Ino u ..'e 1halse prooao!y pierced Inc
~, m .;, ns n1 '.,, ehta,'ning, ~! 'onh
ny. a'h h'"eu! ahu i'i'il'ea'a1eiy expired Win
out as.e.ng aho'ue. woI.' ms norr'hea com
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