O.R.--SERIES I--VOLUME XLI/1 [S# 83] pp. 729 & 735
AUGUST 30, 1864.--Skirmish near Dardanelle, Ark.
Report of Lieut. Col. Irving W. Fuller, Third Arkansas Cavalry.
LEWISBURG, August 31, 1864.
Lieutenant King, Third Arkansas Cavalry, with forty men, attacked Captain Franc's rebel force from Dardanelle yesterday, and captured 30 stand small-arms and 30 horses and saddles, killing 1 man and wounding several others. The rebels escaped by swimming Beatty's Mill Creek.
I. W. FULLER,
Lieutenant-Colonel, Commanding.
Capt. C. H. DYER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
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SEPTEMBER 1, 1864.--Skirmish near Beatty's Mill, Ark.
Report of Col. Abraham H. Ryan, Third Arkansas Cavalry (Union).
LEWISBURG, ARK., September 2, 1864.
(Received 7.30 p.m.)
Captain Hamilton and sixty-five men returned from scout to Yell County. On the 1st instant, near Beatty's Mill, he met 160 bushwhackers under Conly. Charging immediately, he put them to flight, killing 2, wounding several, releasing the assistant surgeon and 1 private of the Second Arkansas Infantry, whom the enemy had prisoners. He also captured a lot of Spanish brown, which the bushwhackers were using to disguise themselves as Indians. No boats yet. River falling.
A. H. RYAN,
Colonel, Commanding.
Capt. C. H. DYER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.