Special to Chicago Journal.
ST. LOUIS, February 25.
Dispatches received at the headquarters of the Department [of the] West this morning announce that the army under General Curtis had again routed General Price, together with the forces sent to his assistance by the Confederates under command of Ben. McCulloch, at Cross Hollows, Arkansas. This was the place at which Price was expected to make his last determined stand. It is forty miles from the Missouri boundary line, and a point at which desperate resistance might well be made.
Gen. Curtis forced Price to leave behind him all his military stores, and also his sick and wounded. Previous to his abandonment of the ground, he ordered all his camp equipage to be burned, and it was done.
General Curtis in his dispatch to Gen. Halleck, says: “Most of our provisions for the last ten days have been taken from the enemy. Price burned the extensive barracks at Cross Hollow, to prevent our troops from occupying them.”
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, February 27, 1862, p. 1
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