ROLLA, Mo., March 29.
Reliable persons just from the army in the Southwest, say the rebels, some thirty-five thousand, under Van Dorn and Price, have retreated entirely across the Boston Mountains, and are at Van Buren and Fort Smith, receiving supplies from Memphis and Little Rock via Arkansas river, which is high.
The Texan Troops are much disheartened at the death of McCulloch, and the Arkansas Troops feel the loss of McIntosh very much. The rebels are badly off for shoes and clothing.
Pike’s Indians have mostly returned to the Indian nation. They were not formidable in battle, being panic-stricken at the effect of our artillery.
Price received his Major General’s commission in the Confederate service on the 16th. One regiment of Texans reached Van Buren on the 15th to reinforce Van Dorn, and more were expected from Louisiana. The whole rebel reinforcements will not exceed five thousand in the next six weeks.
Lieut. Co. Herron, of the 9th Iowa who was taken prisoner, was in the hands of the rebels for two weeks. They were badly frightened and retreated very rapidly, and for the three first days of their flight had nothing to eat. Their cannon and baggage train might have been easily captured. Gen. Curtis’ army fell back to Keitsville, to secure forage, Arkansas, North of Fayetteville being entirely out.
Our forces are now camped at the head of Cross Timber Hollow, where the water and forage are plenty. Our pickets extend into Arkansas and the rebel pickets come north to the top of Boston Mountains. – Fayetteville is unoccupied. Very little union sentiment has been developed in Arkansas.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, March 31, 1862, p. 1
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