(Correspondence of
the Democrat.)
CROSS TIMBERS, Ark., March 20. – Supplies, forage and
provisions, having become exhausted in the region about Sugar Creek, the army
made a retrograde movement march of thirteen miles yesterday to this
place. The enemy are recuperating and
are probably being reinforced by the fresh troops. We have information that a large body reached
Boston mountains with the intention of attacking us again, but this may be only
a strong reconnoitering party. Our troops
are in fine spirits and anxious to again grapple with the foe. The wounded have mostly been removed to
Cassville, and are doing well.
Col. Clay Taylor arrived from the rebel camp bringing Lieut.
Cols. Herron and Chambers with a proposition for an exchange of two rebel
captains and seventeen privates captured yesterday on Indian Creek.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 29, 1862, p. 3
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