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We fought them till near dark, and failing to accomplish anything and losing several killed and wounded fell back to Beall's Station. On the 16th, we fought Longstreet's force at Bean's Station, also on the 17th, and at Rutledge on the 18th. Our troops falling back all the time toward Knoxville, the cavalry doing the fighting, losing several men killed, wounded and captured.
Our loss was one man killed; Sergt. Newport, of Co. H, Seventh regiment, with several wounded. It now being quite dark and no support near, the command fell back to Beall's Station. On the morning of the 14th, Col.
The Confederate losses during the assault are not known. In Beall's brigade all the losses up to the 1st of June numbered 68 killed, 194 wounded, and 96 missing; together, 358; most of these must have been incurred on the 27th of May.
The siege now being raised at Knoxville, and the rebels moving up the railroad eastward, our cavalry was engaged in annoying their flanks, up to Beall's Station. On the morning of the 12th of Dec., 1863, the Seventh O. V. C. and the Ninth Michigan Cavalry, with one section of artillery, under command of Col.
As the theatre of operations approached nearer and nearer, intelligence was brought in by their runners now, that "Captain Barney's head had been recognized in the Sauk camp, where it had been brought the day previous," next, that "the Sauks were carrying Lieutenant Beall's head on a pole in front of them as they marched to meet the whites."
This road, near Albuquerque, unites with Captain Whipple's and Lieutenant Beall's roads to California. Another road, which takes its departure from Fort Smith and passes through the Cherokee country, is called the "Cherokee Trail."
But the enemy's fire beginning to annoy the 5th still more, by wounding several of them, and a strong column passing up the road, and deploying on its left, I ordered them to retire; their retreat became a flight of absolute and total disorder." Of Beall's regiment, the general gives the following succinct account "It gave one or two ineffectual fires and fled."
"I placed Jackson's commission in an envelope with a letter explaining how the President came to promote him. When the boy returned from the post-office he brought me a morning paper containing an account of Beall's raid on St. Albans, Vt.; how he had sacked the town, robbed the banks and alarmed the people. I said to Seraine, 'There it is!
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