Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-01-23

of tho assumed facts stated; of the means. strength anl resources of Gen. McCuloch; i; and as ifha lad no discretion orresponsi5l- ity but to follow tho will and plans ofGen. Price h the first place. sir. It mo ask you if Gen. McCNIloch, by forced march on Neosho (whcge he captured l27 Feier a! troop>) did not create diversion which saved Gov, Jackson and Gen Price from capture by superior force? Dil he not, at the same instant hasten mento hi support at Ca l53, where th, Missouri artillery had md | glorious fight, while the cap turc oi oeigle's whole oomman failel, De- cause q mounted force of Mssourians did not come up to the work?
 How lo you know that Gen. Price (at Oak Hills) asked and Gen McCulloch re- tuso,l three regiments to pursne the foe?- From whom lo you get your information? 1 will not deny or affirm the fact; bu. we all know the troops had been on q forced march-that they had fought six hours in burning sun without water, and Gen. Prico's report sdyS they had been without sleep the previous night. Greer's Texas regiment had been on forced march for ITO miles and came out of the battle with broken down horses. You say the battle was "rMNcIPALLy" won by MiSsourians. Well, sir, that Is GRATEFUL compliment from Missourian to the regiments of Me Intosh, Churchill, whichlo>t twice as many men as any other regiment Gratiot. Car roll, Cookery, McRae'S battalion. Rieff's company, Woodruf's and Red's batteries, all from Arkansas; Greer regiment from Texas, which took half the prisoners cap tured, and Herbert's glorious Louisiana reg imcnt, which took Seige's battery, and made three successful charges on widely diff ferent parts of tho field never heard that any of those regiments, companies or bat tallions fell short of good work ou that day; far otherwise.
 You say ESQ his (Price's) requests were responded to when he went to fight the bat tle of Dry Wood and Of Lexington. Well sir,such charges inyolvemany counter point and tho strategetic history of various move ments. Again you inferentially assume that McCulloch was in duty bound to adopt and sustain Prices plans. You forget that Gen, McCuloch was sent out here without men, money or resources, 10 command in the Indian territory; but alter all the Arkansas State troops were diSbanded late in August, he was left with force hardly adequate to restrain the threatened hostili ty ofa portion of the Indians; that for two months, extending late into October, his cf fective force did not exceed ? 300 men (thongh sensation makers created the pnb lie i'm pression that he had from 12 to 20, 000) that he DID amp Y protect your bor- der from the ,]ahawkers by the active eforts ofthe fective force in the mounted regiments of Mcintosh Greer and Churchill. You for get that Gcn. VI :Culloch was opposed to the policy or Gen. Price in goingt 10 Lexington without a -Ai>ciplnel aml well suppli- ed army, so as to holl the place when ta- ken that his plan was to talk q position in a region where small force could fight 2 large one. and n1t in m opaa country con venient to the Missouri river an,l three rail- roads, through which the enemy coull con ccntrate supplies and an overwhelming force in a few days, while onr supple, must be hauled over rocks anI hills from the Ar kansas river, necessarily consuming much time that he desired in the position chosen . " force sufficient to make hea1wsy an4 hol( possession a~ he advance ot the country m Missouri. Neither he nor any other man with respectable military ability could ex- ppct an army constituted a4 was that of Missouri. with fonr-itths of the m.n oa horse back, and generals, horses ant mues enough for 10000 m4n, to successfully meet and hurl back even . Yanko. Dutci, army of infantry ant artillery, equippel in the most approved manner. Gen. McCul Ioch, l apprehend, thought the longest road delay, reinfol cements, drill and preDera- tion-those trying tests Of true genera'ship when the multitude is clamorous for action would be the shortest and certainly the surcst means of redeemiug Missouri; in case, of course, she should secede and be- come one of the glorious sisterhood, which she did not do till about the first of Novem- ber lIe selected his position and earn esty called for more troops. The same in huenceS which now (south of this, repeat the unjust clamors against him, then sail his appeals were issued as sensation docn. ments!.! Sickness ravaged his camp, aI ready reduced at Oak Hills by death wounds and discharges from various eauses-hls et fective rolls were lean indeed, and he had but six pieces artillery, manned by the chiv- alrous Capt J. J. G1ode, ot Texas.
 But, sir when at last he had strengthen. ed his litle column somewhat, and detcrmi ned with the full previous appreciation of Gen. Price (who had sent him word that he was falling back from Lexington upon Cass- vile, and was on his march to destroy Kansas, the home ofthieves and cut throats, judge of his surprise when, without preyi- ous notice, he m.t the army of Price enter ing Neosho, directly severlng his force in twain, with information that the enemy who was in pursuit ol them, in great force was by that timo in Springfield. Com mon sense demanded that McCRlloch should abandon the Kansas expedition and take position to meet the new emergency. Sev- cral of his newly arrived regiments were then in the Indian cOuntry-SOme to watch the