The Battle of Pea Ridge

From a letter in the Chicago Tribune, dated Springfield, Mo., March 11, we clip the following:

On Friday the engagement became general, and continued so.  The most exposed position being occupied by Col. Carr’s division, the greatest loss was suffered by them.  Col. Dodge’s brigade, of this division, consists of the Fourth Iowa and First Iowa battery, the Thirty-fifth Illinois, Col. Phelps’s twenty-fourth [sic] Missouri, known as the “Lyon Legion.”  The second brigade commanded by Col Vandever, of the Ninth Iowa, consists of his own regiment, the Dubuque battery, and Col. Carr’s regiment of cavalry.

A letter from Col. Dodge says the losses in the 4^th and 9^th Iowa, the 35^th Illinois and Phelps’ 25^th Missouri are from 150 to 200 to each regiment killed and wounded.  The 12^th and 17^th Missouri, 3d Iowa Cavalry and the 8^th Indiana lost about 40 men each.  The 1^st and 2^nd Iowa batteries lost about 20 each.

Among our wounded are Gen. Asboth, in the arm; Col. Carr, also in the arm; Lt. Col. Galligan of the 4^th Iowa; and Lieut. Col. Herron and Major Coyle of the 9^th Iowa.  Col. Dodge had three horses shot under him.

Lieut. Col. Herron was wounded in the foot and taken prisoner.

Major Black of the 37^th Illinois, wounded in arm.

Lieut. Crittenden, Co. 3, 3d Iowa cavalry, severely wounded.

Major Coyle, 9^th Iowa, in shoulder.

Lieut. Porcher, Co. H. 4^th Iowa, severely wounded in thigh.

Color Sergeant Teale, 4^th Iowa, shot in the arm.

Captain Burger, Co. H. 4^th Iowa, wounded in the head.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 18, 1862, p. 1