CHICAGO, March 13. – Special dispatch to the Evening Journal
from St. Louis says: Private letters
received to-day from officers in Curtis’s army, that the rebels in McCulloch’s
army are in the rear of the Federal army and another battle is soon
expected. In the late fight at Sugar
Creek, the 4th Division stood the brunt of the battle. The 4th and 9th Iowa, and 1st & 3d Iowa
batteries are terribly cut up – 180 out of 400 in the 4th Iowa were killed and
wounded. Every field officer in Dodge’s
Brigade were wounded. Gen. Dodge had
three horses killed under him and one wounded.
Capts. Burton and Burman and Lieut. Crittenden were wounded. Lieut. Jackson was killed.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 15, 1862, p. 3
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