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s,It.site-eitl-vawOur Boys in Arkansas.We are permitted to make the following extracts,from a private letter to one. of our citizens, written i by Capt. M. M. Kenney from Little Hock, Oct. 17.The Captain says Our regiment is at present encamped cast of Bayou DeVia, near Helena, where the enemy are posted in force- An engagement took place on Saturday, the (2tb, between 100 of our rea iment, under Lt. Col. Giddings, and 300 of the ene* my. We killed 25 that we got and took 34 prisoners —a Lieutenant and Major among them. Subsequently 4 stragglers were picked up, making Ih prisoners. We lost Lt. Col. Giddings and Lieut. Dave Walton,; of my company together with four men. viz:—J.I r arrow and Oswald Howard of my comnany. We jf I think they are prisoners, except the latter, who pro j hably made his escape. A man ia our company was / 1 taken prisoner, and after they had taken him, they t* j beat and cut him bad ly with their sab rea. Afterwards ir'our men retook him and his captors— the very fel* }f | lows that maltreated him are now prisoners in our ; hands. When he was released he offered the mis** ? creams choice of all the pistols present to tight him.0 - but they of course backed. The most of our army is _ | gone to Missouri. We are put with Parson's and }j Harford’s regiments of Texas cavalry, who with ’; Pratt b Artillery and a river company or two making | brigade. °!- j Anderson is w'.th us and commands an independent . company of Arkansas Hungers—a good company —( We will have severe fighting shortly. We take pris*| oners almost every day. and generally get the north-d j ern papers before they are a week old. The last pa*f; pers are very confident and bold—more hostile than [{ • have ever been. Their troops openly proclaim ! a war of extermination, and they have begun a syste* i *«atic destruction of all property. They have laid S : waste the better part of this State, and picked out :t! their plantations. Their present programme Is to exterminate and drive out the present race and re* | people the country with Yankee. ♦ *• j 1 was not in tbs engagement on last Saturday,—I.; However, 15 of our men were there—John Hedges r»Bob Lou. Tom Tippen, J. Doughty and others. I, had a good race from the Yankees two days before, i Lost my shot-bag and came near losing a man about3 j my si?.-.8 I Our men behaved t * my notion. Those who were in the battle with one voice pronounco them the brave«t where all were brave.We have a good many sick. Wm. Gray died Bept . 12, on the Arkansas river. We have 25 sick in the hospital all are tieing well except Frank Holliday, P. a. Dyner and B. Y. Angel. Frand II. has chilis and fever, Dyner infiamatory rheumatism, and An gel, fever. Oscar Grant is well and hi camps.' — Goliad Mensengfr.
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Tri Weekly News
Galveston, Texas, US
Tue, Nov 25, 1862
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