The National tribune., 1892-08-18
NAVAL ENGAGEMENT.
Occupation Of Pittsburg Land
ing, Tenn.
Compiled from the Official Records of the War

tCCmpned from me OIHclai Records OF tne WAR;
March Seen. G.. r. Beauregard, c. S. Army,
assumed command of the Army of the MlSsls-
sippi.
March 6-The u. s. S. Ottawa, Lieut.. T. H
Stevens in returning from a reconnaissance NJ
the st. Mary's River, Fla, had several sharp
engagements with Confederate troops on both
banks of the river near Downess and Camp
BELLS plantations. Casualties on Ottawa, four
wounded.
The schooner Cora, of Apalachic0la, Fla,
loaded with 2oS bales of cotton, was captured
by the u. $. s. Piuola in the Gulf of Mexico.
Maj. Gen. l.. Polk assigned to command OF
all troops of the Army of the Mississippi
north of Jackson and along the Mississippi
River north of Memphis, and Maj. Gen Brax.
ton Bragg of all troops of the army south oil
Gen. Folks command.
BATTLE OF PEA RIDGE, ARK.
March 6-S-Brig. Gen. Samuel r. Curtis, U.
S. Army, commanding Union troops. Maj
Gen. Earl Van Dorm, c. S. Army, commanding
Confederate troops
COMPOSITION OF ARMIES.
Army of the Southwest.
Brig Gen. Franz Sige commanding First
and Second Divisions.
FIRST DIvIsIoN-Col. P. ]. O'terhuas First
Brigade-Col William n. Coler-17th No.. 25tii
and 44th ILL., Second Brigade-Col. Nicholas
Greusel-l2th No., Seth ILL.,, jerks and Smiths
Co.'S III, Cav. ArtWegy-Welfey Mo- and 4th
Ohio batteries.
SECOND DIvIsIoN-Brig Gen. A. Asboth.
First BTigade-Col. Frederick Schaefer-2d and
18th Mo. Not brigaded-2i OHIO battery, LIST
FLYING battery Mo. Horse Art Benton Hus-
sars and Fremont Hussars.
THIRD DTvIsIoN-Col. JEFF. G.. Davis. First
Brigade-Col. Thomas Pattison-Sth, 18th and
22d Ind; 1st Ind. battery. Second Brigade-37th
and 59th ILL.,; Battery A, Cd ILL., Art. Caraby-
1st Mo.
FOURTH DrvIsIoN-Col Eugene A. Carr.
First Brigade-Col Grenville NJ Dodge-4ti,
Iowa, 35Ih H., and 1st Iowa battery. Second
Brigdde-Col. William Vandever-9th Iowa,
Phelp,'s Mo. Reg't, Sd Ill. Cav. and Sd Iowa
battery.
UNAssIGSED-Bowen's Mo. Cav Sd Iowa
Cav, Sd and oath No.
Combined Confederate Armies.
Missouri STATE GUARD-Maj Gen Sterling
Price. EscoYt-Cearnaps Cav. First Brigade
Col. Henry Little-1st Mo. Cav, 1st and I'd
No. Wade's and Clarks batteries. Second
Brigade-Brig. Gen. William Y. Siack-Hughes'
battalion, Beviers battalion, Rosser's battalion,
Brigade-Col Cotton Greene-State Troops.
Second Dirsion-Brig.-Ge Martin Z. Green.
Third Dicision-Coi. John B. Clark. jr.-1st, I'd,
Sd, 4th 5th Gt!, Mo. Fifth Dirisioa-Col. James
Z. Saunders-De:achment of infantry, cavalry
and kelly's battery. !sigth Dirision-Maj. d. H.
Observation-Disclosures of infantry and Cor
hams battery. Serenth and Ninth Divisions
Brig Gen. d. NJ. Frost-Detacbments of infan-
try and cavalry and Guibors and Macdonald 8
batteries (the Third Brigade rs given above
included). Eighth Dirision-Brig.-G Gen. James s.
Rains-Infantry under Col. VIM. H. Erwin,
Lieut.-C Coils. John p. Bowman, A. ]. Pearcy and
II. Stemmens, BIedsoe's battery and Shelby's
cavalry company.
McCULLocH's DIvIsIoN-Brig. Gen. Ben.
McCulOch. killed, succeeded by Col. f. Greer.
Heber's Brigade-Col. Louis Hebert-4th, 14th,
10th, 18th, 2lst Ark; Sd La. McIntosh's Bri-
gade-Brig Gen. James McIntosh-lst, I'd Ark.
M't'G Rifles; Sd, 18th, 9Th, 18th Tex. Cav. ar
tatery-Harts, Provence's, Gaines's aud Goods
batteries.
Pixies COMMAND-Brig.- Gen. Albert Pike
Stand Wate's and Drew's Cherokee regiments !;
McIntoshs Creek regiment, and Welch's Texas
Cav.
OTHER TRooPs-Brooks's Ark Cav, Crump's
Tex. Cav, Whitfeld's Tex MID Rifles Techs
battery, 10th and 22d Ark.
STRENGTH OF ARMIES.
The effective force of the Union army did
not exceed 10000 infantry and cavalry with
40 pieces of artillery. Prices command num-
bered, in all, 6,S16 men. with eight batteries of
light artillery. McCulloch's command
Heberts Brigade-4.637; Greers Cavalry Bril-
gade (McIntosh's) 3747; total, 1884, and four
batteries, with 16 pieces of artillery. Pixies
command consisted of about 1000 men, all
Indians except one squadron. Grand total,
16, 202 infantry and cavalry.
CASUALTIES
ARMY OF THE SoUTHWEsT-12 officers and
l91 men killed, SO officers and 92S men
wounded, and 10 officers and 19l captured or
missing; aggregate, 1884.
COMBINED CONFEDERATE ARMIES - The
Confederate loss is reported by Gen. VanDorn
at from 500 to 1000 killed and wounded, and
between 200 and 300 prisoners In the official
reports the loss is given as follows: Pixies COM
mand, three killed and two wounded; 4th Ark,
16 killed and 33 wounded, "a missing; Sd Tex.
Cav, two killed and IL wounded 9th Tex.
Cav. 10 killed. wounded and missing Mis-
souri, State Guard-SecondBr Brigade, Eve killed
and 81 wounded Third Brigade, six killed
and So wounded; Third Division, IL killed,
lOI wounded, and 35 missing; Fifth Division,
nine killed, 80 wounded; Sixth Division, Is
wounded and 81 missing; Eighth Division,
two killed aud 90 wounded
March Mai. Gen c. F. Smith, u. s. Army.
assigned to command Of expedition up the Ten
nessee River.
The schooner Anna Belle was captured by the
L. S. bark Pursuit off the west coast of Flor.
ida.
Coles cavalry, section of Matthew's bat
terry and the 46th Pa. and 5th Conn. while OIL
a reconnaissance from Bunker Hill, Va, met
detachment of Turner Ashby's cavalry and
engaged them near Winchester, Va. Union
loss three men wounded Confederate, one man
wounded.
Lieut. Col. John II. Jackson, Sd N. H., with
a detachment of that regiment. made a recon-
noisssnce from Port Royal. S. c., up the Savan.
nah River and to Eba Island, returning to
camp on the 18th.
Brig. Gen. Joseph B. Plummer, U. s. Army,
with the 18th No., 26th and 47th Ill.,, squad
ron of cavalry from the I'd and Sd Mich, one
company of Engineer troops and PowelPs bat
terry Mo. Art, effected Judgment and con-
structed batteries at Point Pleasant, Mo. The
rebel gunboats. after repeated and persistent
cannonading. found it impossible to dislodge
him, and he maintained his position and block
AIDED the river during the whole of the opera
tion preceding the occupation of New Madrid,
Mo.
Co. z, 4th Mo. Cav (Union), had five men