Show A greathouse for our graceful letter bioni little rock arkansas dated apt april ia 7 ath th 1 sas I on the alt clayton marched from pine bluff with five handled bundled infancy ritty siv fix hundred cavalry and five pieces of artillery in the of the rebels fortified camps alfon at monticello ti where was known to beabout bo about to fo ir thousand men under colonel dockeney Doc kerey Ari arriving iving at mount elba a little place on the saline river leading five hundred bundred infantry ind and their ai tillery to guard their crossing crosan cros ln lie he a advanced with the cavalty south t to 0 a point at which the roads leading aiom camden aden monticello and lom long view the litter latter place lofty miles south converge throwing iving out s scouts in either ind and lena aen greathouse in an offices aheady all eady known lot for his daring and intrepidity Is as low down as long view thus placing himself between bet ven pi ice s army at the camden ind and docket ys at monticello gi ea nv with ith bew between een ta twenty enty and thirty Y iben en matched capi iapi vapidly 1 ay to long view and on oil abele di coveted feied a laige forage co train cio bing the liver on a pontoon bridge guarded by a brigide of rebel soldiers and bet heie e took place 7 one of the boldest specimens of stra getic co coolness and audacity ln we e e ever er I 1 lead ead of iu in the history of this or any other war perceiving perc ehing abit he be was not taken boran for an enemy the i rebels s ipp ip posing win him to belong to shelbye Shel bys command on account of tile si of tile the n at once assumed sit lied the air of a friend they tools took ilia dim to be 1 ard and also alio the command riding up ill to the W birdge idge 1 with I ith his little folce foice ind and stationing his men at each side iilo thereof with adne ins asti title notions he be called out in the most comm commanding and in g tone to 1 bui I 1 y oi over er the tialin each 1 e ie t its as lie he got oi over er was desai me and told that a loud word lord from him would cause him to be intently shot and thus evele al marched arched ovel tit the bridge three hundred men whose el guns were as fast as they ai rived 1 chucked into the river and the men themselves ll 11 cie made of wal wai and all this v without tile the fit filing lag of a gun or loss los of a man it is pren presumed ined that greathouse could have bale been athing pilson eis till this time but when he be had goil got as many animals and men as lie he could manage he be bained binned the bridge and the wagons and by an unparallel mat ch rejoined clayton in ill safety having accomplished his brillant success and a I 1 distance of bo 60 miles in twenty four houis we leave this teat leat of the gallant greathouse with the simple ici nail that we i e do not believe tile the equal of it for co coolness olnes courage I 1 and tact cin can be found 1 in n the he history of the war and tb thus its belie believing vim it I 1 is s respectfully submitted that lie he deev dei prompt le te cognition at the hands of the secretary of war american falaq juno june ath |