Tuesday, March 11, 2014

From St. Louis

ST. LOUIS, May 19.

The following is by telegraph to headquarters:

Col. Daniels attacked the rebels under Col. Jeffries, forty miles from Bloomfield, and reports from Chalk Bluff that he seized a ferry boat and crossed under the enemy’s fire, routed and pursued them six miles into Arkansas, the fleeing into swamps.

We had two Lieutenants wounded, one mortally, one private killed and six wounded.  The enemy lost eleven killed and seventeen wounded, who were captured – also provisions, horses and arms.

Lieut. Bacon Montgomery has killed the rebel Col. Schnable.

Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, May 21, 1862, p. 2

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