“Smith!” I cried, “Smith! Help! help! for God’s

from citizens along his line of march, it is safe to say that he had

in the action not less than five-thousand men. Our casualties were

not many--forty-one in all. His loss in killed and wounded was

considerable, his most severely wounded--forty men--falling into our

hands, having been left at farm-houses in the vicinity of the

The victory in the face of such odds was most gratifying, and as it

justified my disinclination--in fact, refusal--to retire from

Booneville without fighting (for the purpose of saving my