. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . prisoners, 1000muskets, and other stores. But victories alternated, for now General SterlingPrice surrounded and captured the Unionist Colonel Mulligan and his Irishbrigade of 2780, at Lexington, Mo. Worse, however, than this was the nearannihilation, October 21st, of a Unionist force of 1700 under General C. P. Stoneand Colonel E. D. Baker at Balls Bluff. The noble Baker and 300 of the men 136 VICTORY AND DEFEAT. were slain and over 500 taken prisoners. Ten days later Commodore S. , aided by General T. W. Sherman with io
. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . prisoners, 1000muskets, and other stores. But victories alternated, for now General SterlingPrice surrounded and captured the Unionist Colonel Mulligan and his Irishbrigade of 2780, at Lexington, Mo. Worse, however, than this was the nearannihilation, October 21st, of a Unionist force of 1700 under General C. P. Stoneand Colonel E. D. Baker at Balls Bluff. The noble Baker and 300 of the men 136 VICTORY AND DEFEAT. were slain and over 500 taken prisoners. Ten days later Commodore S. , aided by General T. W. Sherman with io,ocx) men, reduced theConfederate forts on Hilton Head and Phillips Island and seized the adjacentSea Islands. General Fremont, unable to find and engage the ConfederateGeneral Price in the West, was relieved of his command of 30,000 men ; butGeneral U. S. Grant, by capturing the Confederate camp at Belmont, Mo.,checked the advance of General Jeff Thompson. On the next day, November8th, occurred a memorable event which imperiled the peaceful relations between. BATTLE OF PITTSBURG LANDING. the United States and Great Britain. Captain Wilkes of the United Statesfrigate, San Jacinto, compelled the British mail steamer, Trent, to give up twoof her passengers, the Confederate Commissioners, Mason and Slidell, who wereon their way respectively to England and France in the interest of the foreign war might have resulted had not Mr. William H. Seward, the astuteSecretary of State, promptly disavowed the act and returned the Commissionersto English keeping. General E. O. C. Ord, commanding the Third PennsylvaniaBrigade, gained a victory on December 20th at Dranesville over the Confederate THE STORY OF AMERICA. i37 brigade of General J. E. B. Stuart, who lost 230 soldiers, and during the samemonth General Pope reported the capture of 2500 prisoners in Central Missouri^with the loss of only 100 men ; but 1000 of these were taken by Colonel Jeff. by surprising the Confedera
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