The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 17, In Two Parts. Part 1, Reports. Page: 771
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ARKANSAS POST.
ment and mortification, two of my best line officers were wounded by
the enemy, viz, Capt. Uley Burk, Company I, in hand, and Lieutenant
Alexander, of same company, in left arm (neither of which is considered
dangerous), and was thus engaged when General Thayer in person di-
rected my color-guard to advance and plant our colors upon the enemy's
works, which was promptly done. At the same time General Thayer
gave orders for the regiment to come inside the breastworks and pre-
vent straggling parties retreating by their left rear. Soon after, the
entire regiment was detailed to conduct the prisoners up to and inside
of the fortifications, where General Sherman had them taken up to his
headquarters. This latter duty proved more arduous than it should
have been but for the tardiness of the regiments detailed by order
of the general commanding to be placed under Colonel Grier, of the
Seventy-seventh Regiment Illinois Volunteers, who had orders to take
charge of the prisoners for the night. It was after midnight before the
regiment was relieved. There is nothing further which I deem my duty
to mention save that both officers and men generally acted well for
new troops. I might mention with great propriety to you a few strik-
ing instances of cool and commendable courage displayed by some of
my men, they having fallen under my immediate notice during the ac-
tion; but I forbear mentioning any save one, and that is the case of
James M. Smith, private of Company C, a single young man, not yet
arrived at his majority, who has been doing the duties of adjutant for
some time past, owing to the indisposition of the adjutant. I have been
familiarly conversant with him for the last two months, and find him to
be a young man of irreproachable moral character and one altogether
deserving of public confidence. His conduct on the battle-field in the
late engagement was such as to secure implicit confidence in his courage
and ability, and to justify the belief that he is entirely capable of filling
a more important position than he now does.
Hoping this will meet with your approval, I remain, colonel, your
obedient servant,
W. M. G. TORRENCE,
Lieutenant- Colonel Thirtieth Iowa Volunteers.
Col, CHARLES H. ABBOTT.
No. 33.
Report of Brig. Gen. David Stuart, U. S. Army, commanding Second
Division.
HDQRS. SECOND DIVISION, FIFTEENTH ARMY CORPs,
Post Arkansas, Ark., January 14, 1863.
MAJOR: I have the honor to submit a report of the operations of the
Second Division, Fifteenth Army Corps, on Saturday and Sunday, 10th
and 11th instant, before the Post of Arkansas:
The division was debarked on Saturday morning, and about noon
took up the march, in rear of General Steele's division, for its position
in front of the enemy. At the first rifle-pits, near a mile from our place
of debarkation, our advanced line encountered the enemy in small force
of skirmishers, operating probably as a rear guard of the force we dis-
covered retreating toward the fort. As we reached the rifle pits we
were in plain view of the fort, and as our batteries advanced along the
line the enemy opened with shell in several well-directed shots. The
artillery, however, ran the gauntlet around the point of the intrench-
ments at full speed, and took the road under cover of the woods with-771
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United States. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 17, In Two Parts. Part 1, Reports., book, 1886; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth154626/m1/782/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.