While he was arranging them in line, in a locality where the bushes were about eight feet in height, the Indians made so much noise as to reveal their exact position.

One of our batteries was quietly placed within point-blank range of the Indians, and suddenly opened upon them with grape and canister.

They gave a single yell, and scattered without waiting for orders.
The Indians were not, as a body, again brought together during the battle.

In a charge which our cavalry made upon a Rebel brigade we were repulsed, leaving several killed and wounded upon the ground.
Some of Pike's Indians, after their dispersal, came upon these, and scalped the dead and living without distinction.

A Rebel officer subsequently informed me that the same Indians scalped several of their own slain, and barbarously murdered some who had been only slightly injured.
On this part of the field we were fortunate, early in the day, in killing General McCulloch and his best lieutenant, General McIntosh.
To this misfortune the Rebels have since ascribed their easy defeat.
At the time of this reverse to the enemy, General Van Dorn was with.
Price in our front.