Audubon-Scott-Clinton County IA Archives News.....Good News From Arkansas. December 10, 1862
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New York Times December 10, 1862

       GOOD NEWS FROM ARKANSAS.
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    Another Battle and Another Victory.
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       Gen. Herron Attacked by the
           Enemy 24,000 Strong.
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     Desperate Fighting from 10 O'clock
             A. M. Until Dark.
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   General Herron Reinforced from General
               Blunt's Force.
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    The Enemy Routed with Heavy Losses.
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   Another Flight to the Boston Mountains.

           Battlefield, Near Fayetteville, Ark.,
                                Tuesday, Dec. 8.
  Gen. Herron's forces, en route to reinforce
Gen. Blunt, met the enemy yesterday on Crawford's
Prairie, ten miles south of Fayettevile, Ark., and
won a decisive victory.
  The enemy were 24,000 strong, divided into four
divisions, under Gens. Parsons, Marmaduke, Frost
and Rains, all under Gen. Hindman, and embraced
the flower of the Trans-Mississsippi army, well sup-
plied with eighteen pieces of artillery.  The enemy
flanked Gen. Blunt's positions at Crane Hill, and
made a sudden attack on Gen. Herron, to prevent
him uniting with Gen. Blunt.
  Gen. Blunt's force consisted of the Ninety-fourth
and Thirty-first Illinois, Nineteenth and Twentieth
Iowa, Twenty-sixth Indiana, Twentieth Wisconsin,
a battalion or two of calvary, in all 6,500 or 7,000
men, and 24 pieces of artillery.
  The battle raged from 10 A. M. until dark, and was
desperately fought throughout.  Our artillery drove
the rebels from two strong positions, and kept their
overwhelming numbers at bay.  The Twentieth Wis-
consin captured a rebel battery of four heavy guns,
but were forced to abandon them under a murderous
fire.  The Nineteenth Iowa also took the same bat-
tery and fought most desperately, but were also
obliged to yield it.  Almost every regiment distin-
guished itself.
  About 4 o'clock, Gen. Blunt arrived from Cane
Hill with 5000 men and a strong force of artillery, and
attacked the rebels in the rear.  The rebels made des-
perate efforts to capture his batteries, but were re-
pulsed with terrible slaughter.  We held the whole
field at dark, and before 9 o'clock that night the en-
tire rebel force were in full retreat over Boston
Mountain.
  Our loss in killed and wounded was six hundred.
The rebel loss was fifteen hundred, by their own ad-
mission.  Several of the rebel field officers were
killed, among them Col. Stein, commanding a brig-
ade, formerly a Brigadier in the Missouri State
Guard.  Only a few prisoners were taken.  We cap-
tured four caissons filled with ammunition.
  Lieut.-Col. McFarlan, of the Nineteenth Iowa Regi-
ment, was the only field officer on our side, killed.
Major Hubbard, of the first Missouri Calvary, was 
taken prisoner.



Additional Comments:
The New-York Times.
VOL. XII–NO. 3499.  
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1862
PRICE THREE CENTS.


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