The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-08-07
EVANSVILLE, IND, FRIDAY MORNING,

keep his word, and expecting some proc
, of violence, we opened the grave, ant
found it contained a little drummer-boy
The rebs had fractured his skull. He
poor fellow fills a soldiers grave on thu
s banks of the Tensas Although killed il
. the bloom of youth by the hands of {
, rebel crew, his voice comes up crying
for revenge; and BY the God that created
the heavens and the earth, he shall be
revenged by his own colsrl e-----
l send you Col Woods official report
HEADQUARTERS,
PosT OF GooDRIGH LANDING, La,
July |, 1863.
Brig. Gen. Dennis, Commanding Dis
trict N. e. Louisiana:
SIR-On the morning of the 2Sth ult.
my attention was called to loud and con-
tinued sring in the direction of an out
post, four miles northwest of this place,
where two companies of the lst regiment
Arkansas Volunteers, A. D., were sta
toned. | started Immediately with one
battalion in that direction. When with
in two miles of the outpost, we met the
enemy advancing in the direction of
! Goodrich Landing. After securing a
good position, we formed our line and
waited, expecting an attack. The enc
my opened fire with four pieces of artil.
lery, and after throwing shot and shell
tor fifteen or twenty i.sinutes he retired,
leaving us in possession of the field.
My force being infantry, the enemy cav
airy and artillery, and vastly superior in
numbers, it was impossible for us to fol-
low. returned to camp, where | ascer-
tanned from two deserters that the enemy
were in large force, under Gen. Walker,
there being not less than 5000 infantry,
1000 cavalry, and sixteen pieces of ar
tillery. In the afternoon made another
attempt to reach the outpost with my
whole force, but failed in consequence
OF the superior numbers of the enemy.
On the morning of the Doth, proceeded
to the outpost with my whole force, and
ascertained that the enemy had captured
the two companies stationed there, and
had destroyed the houses, gins, etc, on
all the plantations, and driven off large
number of negroes, horses, and mules.
From information received from
prisoners, | ascertained that the
men at the outpost fought the enemy
| until their ammunition was exhausted,
k!llRg .S ssvsntesn tag end wounding thirty
soldiers in the ruiti- of the burning quar-
tiers. We disinterred the remains of a
soldier, who bore evidence of having had
his brains beat out with musket
Our casualties are prisoners taken:
Capt VIM. B. Wallace, company E,
1st Arkansas Volunteers, A. D.; I'd
Lieut. Jno. NJ. Marshall, company E,
lst Ark. Volunteers, A D.; lst Sergeant
Daniel Smith, company E, lst Ark Vol
unteers A. D.; Capt Hugh Maxwell,
company G. lst Ark. Volunteers, A. D.;
lst Lieut.. John East, company G, 1st
Ark. Volunteers, A D.; 140 non-com-
missioned officers and prlvates, (colored)
lst Ark. Volunteers, A. D.
My command participated in skir-
mish with the enemy under command of
Gen. Ellett's Marene brigade, and be-
haved in a credita5le manner
Ihave the honor to be, General,
.- Very Respectfully,
Your ob't servant,
WM. F. WooD,
Col. Commanding Post.
have written you a long ac-
count of our late battle, if you think, or
the Editor of your paper so disposed, to
have it published, why all well and good.
Not being in the habit of writing for the
press, you must excuse aud make neces-
sary corrections 1 have been very un-
well for the last ten days. Harry is al
so very sick. | have applied for leave
r. e.
fast, five or six day from our regiment.
We have lost by death one Lieut. and
one orderly sergeant during the last ten
days, and more than half the regiment
is sick The weather is excessively hot
and likely to remain so for some time.
l have not been with the regiment since
left Helena last May.
This is beautiful country; splendid
houses and most beautifully furnished;
nlenty of paa ehee,- uPPfcs, pears, etc
After the raid l went through some
of the houses, and IteU you if I could
get home one-third what | saw going
to ruin, could have the finest furnished
house in Evansville: such as mirrors,
piano fortes, fine quilts, pictures, and
again, wearing apparel, such as silk
dresses and all kinds cf ladies' goods,
and cords of music, and what libraries!
l might say thousands of books; and
then again the china ware, which will be
all carried off by the darkies and broken
and destroyed 1t only makes me feel
bad that can't "jaw-hawk y them and
send them home l have four large
books htr,, belonging to Gen. Grants
brother-in-law, Judge Dent, Government
lessee, who vas taken prisoner at the
last raid.
There are two volumes of Shakespeare,
. with steel engravings. These books are
about % feet square. Then there are
two of North American Quadrupeds,
about the same size-just as much as a
, man can lift. The four books cost s.,
600.
There was an Evansville man in the
, raid. Earnhardt is his name. | think
he used to be telegraph operator at
Evansville. He married Mary Warth,
/ Mrs. Sorenson's sister. l was to her
house the day before the raid and had a
+, long talk with her. She has a step
5 daughter that performs magni6cently on
the piano forte. Her name is Orphela
t Earnhardt took them with him at the
j time of the raid. He also took the girls
q piano, but we pursued them so close the
next day that they were compelled t.
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