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The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], Affairs on the border. (search)
ey are only so many triumphs, each for the time unparallel, and each rising in dignity and importance above the other. But the other day we beat them badly in the field at Murfreesborough and Vicksburg. They have made themselves amends, after their fashion, by a great victory at Arkansas Post. With regard to the details of this exploit, as published by as yesterday from the New York Herald, we must say that we are utterly incredulous. Arkansas Post is an old French settlement in Arkansas county, on the Arkansas river, about one hundred miles above the mouth. It was a post during the existence of the United States, and was held by a small force, never more, we believe than two or three companies. There were no fortifications there, and, as far as we can learn from the most diligent inquiry at the proper source, no considerable body of troops. At the utmost it is not believed that there were more than four or five hundred. Yet the Yankee paper victory calls for 7,000 prisone