CHICAGO, April 1.
Times’ Dispatch.
The Times’ St. Louis special of the 31st Ult., says:
A short engagement took place at Fox Creek, Douglas county, between 40 Federal cavalry and 72 secessionists. The Federals had two killed and 6 wounded. The cavalry then retreated to Webster county, where, being reinforced by sixty home guards, they returned to Mountain Grove Seminary, Webster county, where they found the enemy, surrounded them, killing 13, wounding a number and took the entire company, save one man who escaped, prisoners.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, April 2, 1862, p. 2
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