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Yrtm the Dallas Herald.] jBattle of Prairie Grove, j►» •The following letter from a prominent officer in [the Army of Gen. {Headman, to gentleman in thisptyco, gives an Interesting description of the Battle of Prai-rie-Grove. The writer is a gentleman of strict i integrity, and kgiowsall he says to be true. The letterIs dated, ,* * .Camp Niar; Fort Smtn. December 19, ISOS.* • Something has “turned up;” we tiavofought a big battle with the abolitionists, near Cane HiU, 4- mile* nortU*east of this, and may be a; few items from an “eye-witness” and participant, would interest you. Blount, of Kansas, with some 7,000 thieves, has, lor a few weeks, been encamned at jaud near Cane Hill, and you know the want and misery always inflicted upon the people by the«e Hessians wherever they go. For the purpose of freeing j’lutfi country of their presence, and, giving their 7000 icat-cassea to the ^Potter’s Field'—of tending them wjaere thousands of their compodions in arms have gone before, to the regions of thed-r-di our excellent General. llmdman, ordered a forward movement on (Jane Hill. We made a forced march,: without commissaries or blankets, and met the brutes some four miles this side of Cane Ilill, on the; 6th inst. After bkir-mishiog with, and driving him’to the top ofi the mountain, on the Cane Hill iroad, night having set in, our army, with the exception ot some 1500 cavalry, drew off in the darkness to the Cove Creek *o*d, and the morning found u« in his retr. on the Fayeti-ville and Cane Iliil road, by the old Walnut Church. W# made sure we had that 7000 safe, and were counting jubilantly, the rich haul almost in our finders, i But you know, “there’s many a al»p ’twlxt the cup * and the lip. Hush! what is that 1 Heavy canon-j ading o» ens on our rear and right; brigades and |divi-i sions change trontand are saluted jrlth the bristling bayonets of twelve to fifteen , thousand abolitionists going to the assistance of- Blount. The battlei now opens furiously, the feast ot blood and death hejrins! Fifteen thousand brave rebels—Miasouriars, Texans and Arkansans—brave alike-rpiited against atj least 20,00U abolitionists, and the air and earth, for five moi tal hours, Is filled with every conceivable missile of death. The roar of artillery And musketry] beat anything I ifever heard, and 1 have been in seVen I battles. The Feda charged us repeatedly. but the men stood there as firm as the oak a nrouud shorn, and thetr struts of victory drowned the cries of the lying, as they beheld the Federal legions hrea^ ac.» i fl? in utter demoralisation before the steady flue * i their unerring iifles. The First Slissouri Brlfeade, (to which I belong,) under command of Gen- M. M« Parsons, had been under a steady tire of muske ryand artillery for some two hoursi Our brave GejneralParsons rode along the lines, making hiinself heardfKm airt nf h-ittlp. encourairinv the mem said
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Galveston Weekly News
Galveston, Texas, US
Wed, Jan 21, 1863
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