A Large Number of Prisoners Taken.
The Stars and Stripes Wave Over Arkansas.
(Special to St. Louis Democrat.)
SPRINGFIELD, Feb. 18. – Gen. Curtiss has driven the rebel army beyond the Arkansas Line.
At ten o’clock Sunday night we were sixty nine miles south of Springfield.
The Federal Flag now floats in Arkansas.
Several skirmishes had taken place in the defiles of the mountains. We had six wounded and the enemy sixteen killed and a large number wounded. We have bagged a large number of prisoners.
A messenger says that we are only a short distance behind Price’s main body and would chase him up this morning. When twenty miles out the messenger heard heavy firing.
There is a great abundance of forage and provisions except flour.
A train of sugar and beans starts forward from here to-night.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 22, 1862, p. 3
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