CHICAGO, April 1. – The Times’ St. Louis Special of the 31st
ult.., says a sharp engagement took place at Fox Creek, Douglas county, between
forty Federal cavalry and a company of 72 secessionists. The Federals had two killed and six wounded;
the cavalry then retreated to Webster county were [sic] being reinforced by
sixty home guards they returned to Mountain Grove Seminary, Webster county,
where they found the enemy and surrounded them killing thirteen wounding a
number and took the entire company save one man who escaped.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 5, 1862, p. 4
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