This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: KayFakhar Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.arkansas.counties.benton/7073/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The following has been excerpted from the Annals of Iowa, April, 1868. Iowa State Historical Society. 1862 THE ARMY OF THE SOUTH-WEST, AND THE FIRST CAMPAIGN IN ARKANSAS CHAPTER FIRST. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF GENERAL CURTIS. http://www.iowa3rdcavalry.com/SamCurtis/curtis1.htm McKreisick's farm was mentioned a few times on the above site and I thought this might be of interest to someone in the area. -Kay According to census records, the name looks to be McCISSICK or McKISSICK and not McKREISICK. Several McKissicks listed in 1850 Osage, Benton, AR -1860 Osage, Benton, AR David McCissick 73 abt 1787 North Carolina Margaret McCissick 63 abt 1797 North Carolina Daniel McCissick 43 abt 1817 Tennessee THE REPORT OF GENERAL FRANZ SIGEL "HEADQUARTERS 1st AND 2d DIVISIONS, CAMP PEA RIDGE, ARKANSAS, March 16, 1862 CHAPTER FIFTH General:-I have the honor to lay before you the following reports in regard to the actions of the 1st and 2d Divisions from the third to the 9th day of this month. 1st. Expedition to Pineville on the 5th of March. On the evening of the 5th the main body of the two Divisions was encamped near McKREISICK's farm three and a half miles south-ward of Bentonville, and one mile from the fork of the roads beadier west to Maysville, and north-east to Pineville, Missouri. The 2d Missouri under Col. Schaffer and one company of cavalry were stationed at Osage mills, (otherwise called Smith' s mills) five and a half miles south east of McKREISICK's farm, whilst our pickets guarded all the other avenues to the camp. For the purpose of reconnoitering the country towards the Indian territory, and to detain the rebels of south-west Missouri to follow Price' s army by the state line road, Major Conrad with five select companies of infantry, sixty men of cavalry, and two pieces of Welfley' s battery, was ordered to proceed on the first day to Lindsay's Prairie. where he arrived in the evening, sixteen miles southwest of McKREISICK'sfarm, on the scout (the 5th) to Maysville, and to return on the 3d day to our camp. Such was our position on the 5th when I received orders from you to send a detachment of cavalry to Pineville where there were said to be two or three hundred rebels who disturbed and endangered the Elation people of McDonald county. I directed Major Meszaros with eighty men to march at 10 o'clock P. M. on the north-western road to Pineville whilst Capt. Keilmansegge was sent to Maj., Conrad at Maysville to lead his sixty men of cavalry with one piece of artillery and twenty infantry, at 10 o'clock ill the night from Maysville to Rutledge and Pineville, and to act in concert with Major Meszaros. A home guard company stationed between Pineville and Keitsville was ordered to occupy at night the roads leading to Neosho and Kent, and thereby prevent the secesh to escape in that direction. Major Meszaros and Capt. Von Keilmansegge should approach the town from the east, south-east and south-west. It was understood that these detachments should attack the town simultaneously at 5 o clock in the morning. Just a few minutes before 10 o'clock in the evening, when Meszaros was prepared to leave the camp I received news from Col. Schaefer at Osage mills, that his pickets posted in the direction of Elm Spring were fired upon by the enemy. This in addition to your own despatches, reporting the enemy's forces at Fayetteville, and a strong party of cavalry advancing towards Middletown, and besides this, your order to march to Sugar Creek, made me at once aware of the dangerous position of my command. I therefore ordered Col. Schaffer to break up his camp immediately, to send the cavalry company to Osage Spring, to cover his right flank, and to march with hisregiment to Bentonville, leaving Osage Springs to the right, and McKREISICK's farm to the left. All other troops I ordered to be prepared to march at 2 o'clock in the morning. In regard to the expedition to Pineville, it was too late to countermand the movement under Capt. Von Keilmansegge, and I therefore ordered Major Meszaros to begin his march and accomplish his task, with his own detachment and that of Capt. Von Keilmansegge, but to return to Sugar Creek as quickly as possible without running his horses, so that they could be of some use in the ensuing bate. Major Conrad was made aware of our situation and instructed to join us at Sugar Creek by some circuitous road leading north-east. The result of the expedition was not very great, but satisfactory. The attack was made according to the instructions given, and at the precise time, butonly one Captain, one Lieutenant, and fifteen men of Price's army were found in the town, and made prisoners; the others had left some days previously. The commands of Maj. Meszaros and Capt. Von Keilmansegge [arrived] safely on the 6th in our camp at Sugar Creek, bringing with them their prisoners. Unfortunately they had to leave behind and ten destroy a printing press and types taken at Pineville, as the roads they took were too bad to bring this important material along Major Conrad with his detachment found his way to Keitsville and Cassville, which place he left on the 9th and arrived at the former place with Colonel Wright some time after I had opened the road to Cassville on the pursuit of Price's forces, which retired from Keitsville to Berryville. II. Retreat from McKREISICK's farm by Bentonville to camp Halleck * on Sugar Creek. At two o'clock in the morning of the 6th the troops encamped at McKREISICK's farm moved forward toward Bentonville in the following order Advance guard under General Asboth. 1 Company of 4th Mo. cavalry (Fremont Hussars.) 2d Ohio Battery under command of Lieut. Chapman 15th Mo. volunteers under command of Col. Joliat *Not Camp Halleck, camp Halleck was at Cross Hollows. 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