Our whole forces were concentrated the next day near Crane Creek,
and during the same night the Texan regiment, under Colonel Greer,
came up within a few miles of the same place.
MAJOR-GENERAI, ROBERT MCCULLOCH.
Reasons, which will be hereafter assigned, induced me on Sunday,
the 4th inst, to put the Missouri forces, under the direction, for the time
being, of General McCulloch, who accordingly assumed the command-in-chief
of the combined armies. A little after midnight we took up the line of
march, leaving our baggage trains, and expecting to find the enemy near
the scene of the late skirmish, but we found, as we advanced, that they
were retreating rapidly towards Springfield. We followed them hastily
about seventeen miles, to a place known as Moody's Spring, where we were
compelled to halt our forces, who were already nearly exhausted by the
intense heat of the weather and the dustiness of the roads.
