. Military history and reminiscences of the Thirteenth regiment of Illinois volunteer infantry in the civil war in the United States,1861-65 . r. The conditions for an early resumption of our march to-wards the Mississippi can be ascertained from General Curtishimself who says : Headquarters, Batesvieee, Arkansas, May 6th, Ketchum. General : A scout sent forward to determine the possibility ofmoving east, could only go forty miles east of Jacksonport ; beyond itwas an endless lake of water. The General directs me to press forward to the Mississippi, and itseems the river
. Military history and reminiscences of the Thirteenth regiment of Illinois volunteer infantry in the civil war in the United States,1861-65 . r. The conditions for an early resumption of our march to-wards the Mississippi can be ascertained from General Curtishimself who says : Headquarters, Batesvieee, Arkansas, May 6th, Ketchum. General : A scout sent forward to determine the possibility ofmoving east, could only go forty miles east of Jacksonport ; beyond itwas an endless lake of water. The General directs me to press forward to the Mississippi, and itseems the river is corning this way. The whole country about the mouthof the Arkansas and White rivers is overflowed. Napoleon is am preparing means to cross the White river, so as to drive someTexas troops away, and take Little Rock. I am, General, with very great respect, S. R. Curtis, Major-General, Comdg Army of the Southwest. ! I. T*l CHAPTER XV. PEA RIDGE HAVING ELUDED, AND NEW MADRID DODGEDUS, WE CROSSED THE OZARKS WITH NO REBEL ARMYON OUR FLANK OR REAR. WrSkZ^HEN Van Dorn retreated from Pea Ridge,^* he was ordered to take his array to Des Arc, Arkansas, a town on the White river,some miles below Jacksonport, from which the>rwere under orders for Memphis, by boats whichwere to take them from Des Arc, and the day onwhich Comrade Chapel records going out with a foraging-party from Keitsville, under Lieutenant Buck, and whenrumors were thick, that Price was advancing on us, Price wasa General without an army. And on April 5th, the day webegan our Arkansas campaign, turning east from Cassville,Van Dorn returned to his army at Des Arc, until which time,it was not generally known that Missouri and Arkansas werepractically abandoned to the victorious Union army. And theday we built the bridge over Piatt Creek, Tuesday, April 8th,Littles Missouri brigade embarked for Memphis, and the en-tire rebel army, of twenty
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