The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-09-16
GEN. FRANK C.. ARMSTONG.

Brlgadler General Frank u. Armstrong
died at Bar Harbor, Maine, on September
9Th. He was graduate from West Point
and was serving in the United States Army
at the beginning of the War Between the
States. Resigning his commission as
captain of company of Federal cavalry
early in 1861 he reported to the Confederate
Government for service. At the Battle of
Pea Ridge, or Elk Horn Tavern, Ark,
March and 8, 1862, he acted as Assistant
Adjutant General to Major General Earl
Van Dorm, commander of the Confederate
forces, and was complimented for his
''every active and soldierly'' service by
Gen. Van Dorm in his report OF that battle.
After the Battle of Shiloh, Van Dorn's
Army was ordered to Corinth, Miss, and
when the Third Louisiana Infantry was re-
enlisted and reorganized at that place on
May 10, 1862, Armstrong was elected col
onel of that regiment, serving until he
was appointed Brigadier General and
assigned to the cavalry service. On July
25, 1862, Armstrong, with $50 men, at
tackled the Federal force at CORTLAND,
Ala, dispersed the enemy and captured
1873 prisoners, their baggage and camp
equippage, arms and other military sup
plies. "This expedition said Gen. Bragg
in General Orders No. III, ''reflects credit
upon the skill of the commander and
bravery of all engaged, and gives another
proof of what few resolute men inteli-
gently handled can accomplish" This
was Armstrong; first cavalry raid and his
first service as an independent commander.
His loss was three killed and five wounded.
Among the wounded was w. B. Jones of
the Bossier Cavalry, Webb's Louisiana
Squadron, now living at Gayle, Caddo
Parish. He received light flesh wound.
/ AS soon as he could get his brigade we'll
in hand Armstrong marched within the
Federal lines in West Tennessee, where he
made things lively for while. In front of
Bolivar on August 3Oth he whipped the
Federals and drove them into their breast
works, among their killed being two colo
nels. Passing between Jackson and Boil
var he destroyed the railroad bridges and
one mile of trestlework between the two
places, and for more than thirty hours held
the track of the Mississippi Central Rail-
road. At Britton's Lane, near the juno
ton of the Denmark and Medon roads. on
September list he encountered two regi-
ments of infantry, two squadrons of cav
airy and two pieces of artillery. He drove
the enemy from the battlefield, destroyed
portion of their train, took 213 prisoners
and two pieces of artillery and killed and
wounded, by their own statement, over
seventy-five of the enemy. The Confed-
crate loss was small. Among the killed
were E. G. Cook and v G. Cook of the
Bossier Cavalry and Hiram Ingram of
Carroll Parish.
After his raid into West Tennessee Gen.
Armstrong returned to the Army of the
West, on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad,
near Tupelo, Miss. On the nth of Sep
TENDER Major General Prices army left
Guntown headed for Iuka. Armstrong;
cavalry being in advance arrived before
the town early in the morning of the 18th,
and after driving the enemy into their
forts invested the town as best he could
with his small force, hoping to hold them