ng directly with Rain's and Clark's Divisions,
both immediately under the direction of Sterling Price. The latter had
his position for some time behind young Clarke's battery.

The enemy fired wagon-nuts, pieces of chain, marble, gravel, and all
sorts of projectiles. The overcoat worn by Colonel Dodge was perfectly
riddled by the jagged holes made by these unusual missiles.

Colonel Dodge, the day after the battle, received a letter from a
widow lady in Illinois, stating that she had three sons in the field
fighting for the Union; that her youngest son, who was in feeble
health, was in his Brigade, and she asked it as a special favor to her
in her loneliness to have him discharged. The young man whose mother
had such solicitude in his behalf was named Preston Green, and was
killed in the action of the 7th, near Elkhorn, while bravely
performing his duty.

During the battle, Colonel Dodge's horse was shot under him. An
enlisted man, detailed as clerk in the Adjutant's office, was acting
as orderly for Colonel Dodge. When his horse fell, he ordered the
orderly to dismount and give him his horse. The orderly said, "You
will be killed if you get on another horse; this is the third you have
lost." But the orderly dismounted and stood where the Colonel had
stood when he asked for the horse, and at that moment was instantly
killed by a shot from the enemy. After the battle, the Adjutant,
Lieutenant Williamson, found in the orderly's desk a note in which he
said he was sure he would be killed in the battle, and in which, also,
he left directions as to the disposal of his effects and whom to write
to.

In General Price's command there was a Regiment or more of Indians
commanded by Colonel Albert B. Pike. They crawled up through the thick
timber and attacked my extreme left. I saw them and turned one of the guns
of my battery on them, and they left. We saw no more of them, but they
scalped and mutilated some of our dead. General Curtis entered a complaint
to General Price, who answered that they were not of his command, and that
they had scalped some of his dead, and he said he did not approve of their
being upon the field. They evidently scalped many of the dead, no matter
what side they belonged to.

The battle of Pea Ridge being one of the first of the war and one of
unquestioned victory, had a great deal of attention called