. The civil war on the border; . offer up his life if his country demanded it or the reputa-tion of his regiment was at stake. But when left to acton his own judgment and responsibility, he always mingleda proper caution with boldness, and thus escaped the chargeof rashness. General Blunt reported his casualties during the day atfour men killed and thirty-six wounded. He also reportedthat the Confederates left seventy-five men killed andmortally wounded upon the ground fought over. Thenumber of Confederates wounded and taken off the fieldduring the action and under the flag of truce is not kno
. The civil war on the border; . offer up his life if his country demanded it or the reputa-tion of his regiment was at stake. But when left to acton his own judgment and responsibility, he always mingleda proper caution with boldness, and thus escaped the chargeof rashness. General Blunt reported his casualties during the day atfour men killed and thirty-six wounded. He also reportedthat the Confederates left seventy-five men killed andmortally wounded upon the ground fought over. Thenumber of Confederates wounded and taken off the fieldduring the action and under the flag of truce is not his return to Cane Hill that night, General Blunt senta courier back with orders for his trains and the rest ofhis troops under General Salomon at Camp Babcock, onLindsays Prairie, to move forward and join him at RheasMills, a few miles north of Cane Hill. He kept part ofhis troops, however, at Cane Hill, that place being a moreconvenient point from which he could send out detach-ments to guard the passes in the CHAPTER XXX. BATTLE OF PRAIRIE GROVE, ARKANSAS. On the arrival of the trains and the rest of the troops atRheas Mills and Cane Hill, General Blunt at once com-menced collecting subsistence and supplies for his menand forage for his animals. Between Fayetteville andCane Hill was the finest agriculture section of Northwest-ern Arkansas, and most of the farms had raised on themgood crops of corn, oats, wheat, potatoes, and possession of this fair valley, lying directly north ofthe Boston Mountains, had been won by the FederalGeneral after a short, sharp contest; but to hold it, hesoon became convinced that he would shortly be obligedto engage in a fierce struggle, for his troops had scarcelypitched their tents in their new camps when his scoutsbrought him information that General Hindmans armyhad all crossed the Arkansas River at Van Buren andadvanced north fifteen miles, until General Marmadukesretreating division was met on Lees Creek. Having
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