[4]Afterward Major General in command of the Federal troops in Arkansas.
[5]Gen. Sweeney said: “Let us eat the last bit of mule flesh and fire the last cartridge before we think of retreating.”
[6]There are grounds for stating that Lyon knew of the intended attack upon him within four hours after it had been agreed upon, receiving his information through one of his spies, actually a commissioned officer in the Missouri State Guard!
[7]It must be borne in mind that the Confederate line extended in a general direction from the north to the south along Wilson’s Creek; that Lyon attacked the northern end from the west and northwest, while Sigel was stationed at the southern end, over a mile away.
[8]Afterward Major General and in command of this department.
[9]Which was done near Mr. Robinson’s.
[10]It was not Totten’s battery, but Reid’s Confederate battery, from Ft. Smith, Ark. It was well supplied with grape from the Little Rock arsenal.—Compiler.
[11]Since Governor of Arkansas.
[12]At the breaking out of the civil war, the color of the infantry uniform of the U. S. army was gray. Upon its adoption by the Confederates this color was changed, and blue substituted.
[13]Gen. A. E. Steen’s division seems to have been attached to McCulloch’s army. It was insignificant in numbers.