Monday, July 25, 2011

Terrible Battle

ST. LOUIS, March 10.

The following is an official dispatch:


To Major-General McClellan, Washington:

The army of the South-west, Under Gen. Curtis, after three day’s hard fighting, has gained a most glorious victory over the combined forces of Van Dorn, McCulloch, Price and McIntosh.  Our loss in killed and wounded is estimated at 1,000; that of the enemy still larger.  Guns, prisoners, &c., captured in large quantities.  Our cavalry are in pursuit of the flying enemy.

Signed,

H. W. HALLECK,
Maj. Gen’l.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 11, 1862, p. 1

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