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Particulars of the Battle of Prairiedrove*By a gentleman in the Army to hia friendsin this pfty7vT~- *ICamp 2d Kansas Volunteers, Army of toe Frontier,.Bay’s Mills, Dec*.9, 1862, ^When last I wrote you it was soon after the battle of Cane Hill, wbieh we fought on Nov, 28th, At that battle our company was the advance; all day and many were the narrow risks we run, but God,, who gave us the victory, preserved us. .’ Now as We have looked :at things in November lefc-us glance at^December. —Ou theevening of-D.ee. 4, our company wont on picket guard with Co. G. ' On the ’ morning :of the 6,th, the rebels being reinforced so that .their force was 35,000 men, attacked ua, driving vUs slowly in. We were 8 miles out of camp, but we sent in messengers and got a portion of our force and fought them on Reed’a.Hill (Boston Mountain) all day, withbut small loss on either side until evening. They made three charges on us to drive ub from the mountain, but we, the cavalry, wou ’d fall back, as they came and the infantry and cannon would mow them down. Skirmish* irig continued on the 6th but nbt as lively as on the 6tb. The rebels, we found, were moving north on a parallel road about four or sixmiles east Gen. Herron was ordered to come down on the road they were going up oh \ this was on Sunday, Now conies one of those Sunday fightR Htfrron .attacked them in the morning. We, that is, Gem-Blunt's division, got up about nOQn. . Now. comes the tug of war. We of course had to attack them, they having taken position, which of courseis an advantage It was not long until three batterieB 6f jipped cannon were working, scattering death ^hd destruction. In about half an hour all the rebel batteries were silenced. Themcoihes* smjilr .arras. Cavalry were dismounted and weiit into the woods. Then diddeath , hurl its missiles, raround. For about lour . miles, the length of our lines, was a continual clash ©f musketry. All who were at Springfield, Mo., say that Springfield was no where lor hard fighting..The battle raged until dark when both parties occupied their own grounds. The fight closed by their charging one of our batteries, but if was ’ well supported and they fell back with the loss of .80 men to pay for the charge, we firing from our artillery the last shot.At daybreak a flag of truce from the rebel1 • /I* * all % f. . - . _ ... ?_i!___
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Quincy Daily Whig and Republican
Quincy, Illinois, US
Wed, Dec 31, 1862
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