ST. LOUIS, May 19. – The following is sent by telegraph to headquarters:
Col. Daniels attacked the rebels under Col. Jeffries, forty miles from Bloomfield, and reports from Chalk Bluff that he seized a ferry boat and crossed under the enemy’s fire, routed and pursued them six miles into Arkansas, they fleeing into swamps.
We had two Lieutenants wounded, one mortally, on private killed and six wounded. The enemy lost eleven killed and seventeen wounded who were captured – also, provisions, horses and arms.
Lieut. Bacon Montgomery has killed the rebel Colonel Schnable.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 4
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