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THE FIRST YEAR OF THE WAR IN MISSOURI .

MAJOR-GENERAL STERLING PRICE, C. S. A. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH.

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the supreme moment had come, and that the day would be surely lost if hedid not overwhelm Price before the Arkansans could reenforce him, nowbrought forward every available man, and was putting them into the fight,when his horse was killed, and himself wounded in the head. Dazed by theblow, dazed and stunned, his heart gave way for a moment under the suddenshock, but quickly coming to his senses he mounted another horse, and,swinging his hat in the air, called on his men to follow. Closing aroundhim they dashed with him into the thick of the fight. But a moment latera bullet pierced his heart, and he fell from his horse into the arms of hisorderly, and in an instant was dead. It was vain that the Federals tried toprolong the battle. Sturgis, on whom the command devolved, ordered aretreat, and before the Confederates knew that the battle was ended hewas a mile away, having withdrawn his men unseen through the denseundergrowth of the woods in which the battle mainly was fought. In the