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| | Reports of Brig. Gen. Francis J. Herron, Battle of Prairie Grove |
 | | In the second charge, made by the Twenty-sixth Indiana and Thirty-seventh Illinois, Lieutenant-Colonel Black, of the Thirty-seventh, and his adjutant, were both badly wounded, and the adjutant, with several captains and lieutenants of the Twenty-sixth Indiana, killed. |
 | | On Sunday morning, the 7th instant, at 4 o'clock, I arrived at Fayetteville, having marched all night, and was pushing rapidly forward, expecting to join you by 10 o'clock of the same day, when, 6 miles south of Fayetteville, my advance, consisting of two companies of the First Missouri Volunteer Cavalry, under Maj. J. |
 | | Their batteries were in good position, commanding the ford of the creek, and, having excellent range, compelled my advance to fall back, it being impossible to move my command across the ford under their fire. |
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