The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 41, In Four Parts. Part 1, Reports. Page: 651
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:CHAp. il.] PRICE'S MISSOURI EXPEDI'ON. (351
tearing up the railroad, burning forage, breaking reaping machines,
and destroying all kinds of Federal property. The enemy came down
upon me in large numbers, .but calling up Jackman and, getting in all
my detachments, I moved off. They charged twice feebly, but were
easily repulsed, and I marched back toward Austin, followed by them
and fighting them during all the rest of the day. I traveled all night
and reached Austin at daylight, having marched forty miles and fought
six hours.
The result of the expedition was gratifying. Over 450 Federals were
captured, 300 killed and wounded, 6 forts taken and destroyed, vast
quantities of forage destroyed, ten miles of railroad torn up, the rails
heated and bent and the ties consumed, the telegraph broken down,
and hay machines, oxen, wagons, and supplies used up .or driven off.
Our loss in killed and wounded, 170.
The enemy attacked me the next morning furiously at Austin, but
turning upon him at the crossing of Big Cypress, Gordon inflicted such
a sudden and terrible punishment upon him that he retreated from my
rear and never came in sight again. As General Price did not cross
the railroad, as anticipated, and supposing he would come over the
mountain route, I sent a large force to Searcy Valley to watch the roads
there le: ing to his left flank if he came that route aihd frustrate all
such designs, if contemplated.
At this time I had 8,000 new recruits in camps of instruction. Mc-
Cray, Jackman, and Dobbin had good brigades with several unat-
tached regiments and battalions, and I had given the men to 'under-
standfairly and squarely that they should go to the regular army when
the time came, or whenever I was ordered to bring them. Jayhawk-
ing, stealing, plundering of private property, and lawless impressments
had been checked and crushed by effective doses of powder and lead
and the people enjoyed a greater degree of civil freedom than ever
before.
General Adams, whom I found in command of the Northern Sub-
District of Arkansas, was retained in his civil capacity, but had no
control whatever with troops in the field.
Soon after the expedition to the railroad I sent Captain.McCoy to the
Saint Francis River, where a large Government boat washard aground,
with fifty men to destroy it. He was successful. Burned the boat and:-
cargo, which consisted of a large quantity of coal for the Mississippi
naval squadron. Not long after five steamers, crowded with troops,
came up White River to Augusta, where they were ambushed by
Colonel Dobbin, and great numbers killed, causing them to beat a hasty
retreat.
All the prisoners taken were paroled and sent North, for I was too
weak to spare sufficient detachments to guard them to our lines south
of the Arkansas River through an enemy's country, for the entire num-
ber captured during the expedition was largely over 1,100. Only :a
partial list of these prisoners can be furnished, as the record of their.
names was destroyed on the late expedition to Missouri, having been
placed in a wagon devoted to the flames. Those saved, being in another
wagon, will be furnished immediately, which will be between 700 or
800. There was .not a day that some of my scouting parties did not
meet, encounter, and whip in every affair a larger force of the Federals,'
and such was the terror of our arms that they never came against us.
only with heavy odds. Everything in readiness to move I reported to
General Price on his arrival and started for Missouri bn September 19.
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United States. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 41, In Four Parts. Part 1, Reports., book, 1893; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth145053/m1/668/?q=McCray: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.