One hundred fifty years ago, on November 2, 1864, a successful bushwhacker raid on the Grand Prairie: HDQRS. SECOND DIVISION, SEVENTH ARMY CORPS, Devalls Bluff, Ark., November 3, 1864--10.30 a.m. Captain Claflin, Company D, Twelfth Michigan, stationed seven miles out on the railroad, reports that 8 of his men, with their arms and accouterments, were captured yesterday about three miles from his camp by fourteen bushwhackers, under Capt. Patrick H. Wheat, taken about three miles, robbed, then paroled. Captain Claflin had sent out eleven men for bricks at the Hazen farm, but in returning the party separated. The eight were together when attacked, but immediately separated and ran. I have ordered them to be sent here in arrest. Captain Wheat stated that he had been near the line of sentinels here at the Bluff and knew where all were posted; that there was another squad of his men in the neighborhood and that McCray was at Searcy. C. C. ANDREWS, Brigadier-General. Capt. C. H. DYER, Little Rock.
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