. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . ddenly attacked on the north by Lyon, and on the south by Sigel.| One of the stubbornest and bloodiest battles of the war now took main attack was met by Price with about 3200 Missourians, andChui-chills regiment and Woodruffs battery, both from Ai-kansas. His leftwas met and di-iven back by Mcintosh with a part of McCullochs brigade(the Thud Louisiana and Mcintoshs regiment). McCulloch then took somecompanies of the Third Louisiana and parts of other commands, and wit
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . ddenly attacked on the north by Lyon, and on the south by Sigel.| One of the stubbornest and bloodiest battles of the war now took main attack was met by Price with about 3200 Missourians, andChui-chills regiment and Woodruffs battery, both from Ai-kansas. His leftwas met and di-iven back by Mcintosh with a part of McCullochs brigade(the Thud Louisiana and Mcintoshs regiment). McCulloch then took somecompanies of the Third Louisiana and parts of other commands, and with themattacked and routed Sigel (who had been sent to attack the rear), capturingfive of his guns. This done, Pearces Arkansas brigade, which up to thistime had not fired a gun, was sent to reenforce Price. Lyon, seeing that 4. For maps and more specific descriptions of see the papers by Generals Pearce and Wherry,the three chief engagements of this first year, Colonel Mulligan, and General Sigel, to follow.—— Wilsons Creek, Lexington, and Pea Eidge,— Editors. 272 THE FIRST YEAR OF THE IVAR l\ MAJOR-GENERAL STERLING PRICE, C. S. A. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH. the supreme moment had come, and that the day would lie surely lost if hedid not overwhelm Price liefore the Arkansans could reenforce him, nowbrouglit forward every available man, and was putting them into tln> light,when his liorse was killed, and himself wounded in the head. Dazed by theblow, dazed and stunned, his heart gave way for a moment under the suddeushock, but quickly coming to his senses he mounted another hoi-se, and,swinging his hat in tlie air, call(>d on his men to foUi^w. Closing aroxindhim they dashed witli him into the thick of the tiglit. But a moment latera, bullet pici-ced his heart, and he fell from his horse into the arms of hisorderly, and in an instant was dt»ad. It was vain tliat the Federals tried toprolong the battle. Sturgis, on whom the command devolved, ordered aretreat, and
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