CHAPTER XXV. OPERATIONS IN MISSOURI, ARKANSAS, KANSAS, THE INDIAN TERRITORY, AND THE DEPARTMENT OF THE NORTHWEST. April 10-November 20, 1862. SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS
May 1862
Skirmish at Litchfield, Ark. 3, 1862.
Skirmish at Batesville, Ark. 5,

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE SOUTHWEST, Batesville, May 4, 1862. We arrived here yesterday, 3d instant, at 5 oclock a. m. Enemy in force on the other side of the river, under Coleman, and fired on our pickets. We returned it with artillery, and drove them from the neighborhood. Several of the enemy were seen to be carried from the field. One man wounded on our side. We have taken a number of prisoners and some hundred stand of arms and considerable contraband property. Our advanced cavalry will have reached Jacksonport this morning.
Samuel Curtis