Gene, I've read varying accounts of what all the Confederate side got from the Yanks. Petty, of course, wasn't there. He was back at Camden with the rest of his regiment, and wrote what a private would have heard through the grapevine. What I found interesting about his journal entry is his criticism of the U.S. forces commander -- not just a knee-jerk reaction to a so-called massacre. Of further interest, he makes no further mention of Poison Spring in subsequent journal entries. I guess he had too many other things on his mind -- the evacuation of Camden, trying to outrun the Rebs back to Little Rock, the battle at Jenkins' Ferry, etc.

There are some very interesting journal entries concerning his regiment's activities up here in my neck of the woods -- Searcy, Batesville, Jacksonport. I think I'll go through and pick some of the more detailed entries and post them from time to time.

Incidentally, the 3rd Missouri Cavalry, U.S. Volunteers, picked up some Arkansas volunteers while posted at Little Rock in October and November 1863. I've just begun trying to identify these men, but I've already one who came in from Hot Spring County and enlisted. His brother was serving in the 3rd Arkansas Infantry in Virginia at the time.