Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1865-02-16
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II 10 skAasd hi psssloa d ne arny
Of tha poaomse advanesd 10 HaseAsr's
ran On the 7sh INIT. Thsy drove In he
Csnfsdsraas pisksss and sspsaEsa swsasy
pfsssaers. Ths Oeafsamssas opensd ON
the solamns with eannna sad advaaesd ID
line Of battle 20 drive sAssn hack bas
were Espalssd. Loss o. either side nes
sisted.
A later telegram asasss that the Fedss-
ri loss IL bsswsen swo and shres huBdrad
ID the 2a corps and probably 500 ia The
5lh corps. The leas ID estimated mach
higbsr hy seme persoas-
Siaae wrisiag the asevs We nesiss thas
toe RsaaTal lsss Il ever one shoassnd ID
killed aid waanaed. Ths OoafsdarAss
less 10 not ssaIsd bus Rsehnond papers
say shas ID 10 heavy, and shas Gsnersl
Psgram was killed.
II is samsssd that Sherman has ssptur-
ed Branehvilie aud THAI the Confedsrasas
have evacuated Charleston.
ID ID stated that sha Federal asss ID
Capa fear river Ia gradually ssfssllax iss
way " toward Wilmssgton. II 10 nov
said TO be 10 the vicinity Of Fort Aadsr-
son.
For inforustion relative DO the move.
meats Of cur army ID Arkansas We refer
70 the letter Of oar correspondent, to be
found In another column.
The Indian war on the plains has be-
coma 10 formidable that we give II . place
here.
The following statement Of . six days
fight We clip from ths Omaha Ne
braskida -
ssJgLEsBuRs, Feb. I2.--At 10 o'clock On
Saturday, February 4th, the Indians wese
aeen coming with yHit upen The station
at Mud Springs, and Ii i've minutes shsy
commenced firing which did not cease
until dark.
Their first attempt vas to start the
horses that we're near, driving them to my
herd at Pumbkiu Greek.
AZ dark they cut the telegraph wire
west. Lieut.. Ellsworth, at IT. Mitchell i,
had already been notified, and vas on bis
gay with so men 10 reinforce "a, and bis
timely arrival was ali that sayed the posa,
as the Rghi vas renewed at san-Tisa the
second day.
Col, Collins came in 1t dayiighs on the
third daY, With $50 men, when the 6ghs
opened Immediately, the Indians getting
possion Of all tho ground except the
buildings.
Theirs vas not lens than 900 Indians
in aighs, bus getting worssed, they drew
OF about o'clock, losing q number Of
their men, and woundiag 5 Of ours.
On the fourth day they made then APP
peafanos 81 sunrise, but made no general
attack.
Col. Collins sent eat scouts 10 ali diree-
tons to find their trail,
That nIght the artillery came, and Col.
Collins followed their trail TO Rust Greek
whars they bad just broke camp.
He followed the trail TO she mouth Of
the CFeak, and sAw Indians on the North
side of the river, whsn they Immediately
came back to meet as.
We eorreiled, and in a short time wers
surrounded By Mt least 1000 warriors
who came to Us 10 two columns, one on
either aide.
About | P. NJ, the fight commenced,
which lasted unsiI after daTk, resulting Ia
the killing and wounding OF qaita num.
Der OF Indians. and soldiers killed and
wounded.
The sixtb day at daylight found as sur,
roanded, although few shells kept them
at proper distance. By noon they had
recrossed the Platte river, when we broks
up camp and returned.
tsignedl J.R. HoEL.''
This account mar be all correct; and
if 1t is it ia the mast remarkable Rghi
upon record. We think that s0@ men 90.
eupying the houses and 1000 Isdians il
''possession Of all the grounds around
them, ought TO have killed every Indian
Ia sight, from daylighs % 3 O'Clock in sha
afternoon.
And again, the fght vas aach a long
oae & so few killed p men killed aud IL
wounded, 10 a six days Gghs with 2,O0l
Iadians il remarkable small nnmbes:- -
Then she fight commenced At place add
was carried on from shs houses, that tha
telegraph bat few days before, inform.
as had been burned sp BY the Indiana
Well shis is all very strange IT true.