, 1863-07-13


Crave yard Ell, mia EFach IL feal1 3lwes tb the
.datha ndiEiainn= =ouhinh- ,snus posse dsa1t:e
Meantime, tm Lieut.: Col, johnson, of4one Of the
n ..;;Arkansas regiments; made ! 'fauk movement
.nn our: Left, 1or tho purpose of ent1lading bat
:ter1~ D; ; .1put; some Of our unengsged troops
'f5ing on the river bank to the left, closed in
upon them and captured the who1e crowd.
This closed up the battle, and at about 10
o'clock the firing ceased.
The rebels made the best time on record
towards Trenton, and were pursued some dis
tance By our troops, but Gen. PrentIss' force
WAS insufficient to admit Of long pursuit,
he having had less than 500 under his com
Hind. But the rebels have put miles By the
score between them and Gen. Prcntiss' boys,
and will not trouble the latter again for many
a day.
. Our troops were materially assisted By the
gunboat Tyler, which did effective service
Capt. Pritchard managed his boat admirably
throwing five hundred shell during the en-
gogement. Gen. Prentss expresses unquali-
fled admiration and gratitude at the assis-
tance rendered him By the Tyler.
The rebels started from Jscksonport to
make the attack, Price's troops having Ind
their headouarters their.
The rebel loss in thls battle VAS terrible. /
have been ab1e tn Get nrettv neor the CORRECT
figures from two different sources. In the
first place our troops buried 500 Of their dead
Oh the field Of battle, then nearly 100 Of their
wounded have since died on our hands zoo
of their wounded are now under treatne, at
He,eua: ESQ now Lis at Trenton ton badly
wounded to be takeu farther bv the rebels
Taking into account the number Of other
wounded. and tha whole number cannot be-
far from I'm. in f,ct these ara the f7cn,e.
stated hV Dr a{rphee+ere ~ a. ror;a .rho
Inns cba11e of thu rebe1 1ronndea and Hho ;a
in ,,os,tion in tina confederate army The
,,isorere +.1-an hv ,s o.rrot h. 1os. +h,,,
! aGo inc1ndino a1 comm,ss,onsd ot1,co~s
The Tvcoon tnok nm north no ,nc,nd,no cs
comm;ee5oncd officers Thar ~ wood 9to
Including 20 commissioned officers ard the
s;.xnr Noon ia iuc1nd,nc : corn,n,ss;oncd
oft,ccrs and * ,r;sore-a ora ,o.r ,,.ro rna
f3rures of tbe rchel IL tbns reconItn1o+ea.
K;,,cd nm tho Ae3d qso. vorndad ho.;dos
xonrdca nr,soners m. n,isoners IN n,
l. eco: total rehc, 1oss' Q soo Wh5la tbe total
Federal 1oss ,ll tia Ef,1.a wounded sna
missing. gas onlv $50.
We made a very good tan1 Of field off3,ers
among the prisoners, The FOLLOWING haye
gene up the river: Col, Bell and Iient. Col.
Jolueon, Of Beu's Arlansas Legion: Col
Hart, Of an A1kansas regiment: Col. Lewis.
OF the 11th Missouri regiment.
The following were killed, and their bodies
buId by our men: Gen. Parsons, Gcn. Nc.
Crea, Col McCrea, Maj. McCrca, Maj. San
ford, Maj Martin, Mnj. Smith. The Gen Nc
Ctea Is from Missouri; the Colonel and
Lieutenant Colonel are from Mississippi.
The rebels we're well provided with artillery,
having eichteen or twenty pieces of the best
ki1a. and their muskets we're the Enfield and
other excellent patterns.
T nm informed bv Gcn. prent3as fh,t the
co1ored 7ep,ment here-the "a Arkansas-d5d
roh,v dnr;np fha enraoement standing 1fxa
veterans in the thickest ot the faybt.
The list Of our killed and wounded has not
x,t t,se,, ,o,aa ,,+ ,rh;o,, +b,n1r d,e,1.,.
set ees4 A'1">@' oA1' "Aea '1'u0 oa9e1aJa
restlesEncss somewhere.
Among our officers killed. the rumber of
-. ~ -. ~,...1, -..T.ss4 w. 80 ~
whom Ii very Small, Was Lieut. Onions, Of the
Ssh Missouri. Lieut. Burnett of ona of the
1.d,.n. -,o,,no,,+s --ee .1so ;r;,3oa
1nolana 9egi"cnts' WIS also AlAca-
The regiments engaged are the following:
eo5 - oott 1on-s on, Tew. oos ,n."
"oa Ao"a' ~"'u 1o"a' oo.n Ao"o, ooa :nl8souu,
SSH Missouri, 43d Indiana, ,26th Wisconsin
..a o. A .7,.,,,ar ,,,o,,a --,t,N@,. -. =. -
a1lu ~ 4a1A1isae colofeti4 WALL tae Ast lnd1ana
and 5th Kansas cavalry.
Con prer+,sa uoa v,,+a-,o.,v .s.,.+.a ~.
.-,l. 1eul4oo ~ e's naete'eo =,
E,rernov Ala uae a1co rerao-oa hv hi. A,as
H.; - p,e..a ~. ~ 80 T I.s-.. ~ ~ y y n Ta H-o9'
se,.a aeh W. ~ = 1~nas eot, =,
Tna.,.at 80. s - 49, ee' VIII 1a'