Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Price’s Rear Guard Overtaken

Dispatches were received at Headquarters last evening by Gen. Halleck, from Gen. Curtis, to the effect that he had pursued and overtaken price’s rear guard, captured nearly all of its baggage, and taken more prisoners than he knew what to do with.

In this connection, it is also stated that in the list of prisoners are several of Gen. Price’s Staff. – Mo. Dem. 17 inst.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, February 20, 1862, p. 2

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