killed, and Generals Price and Slack wounded. Owing to the nature of the ground, any effective pursuit of Van Dorn's broken forces was impracticable. [Illustration: BRIGADIER-GENERAL JOHN B. FLOYD, C. S. A.] [Illustration: LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIMON B. BUCKNER, C. S. A.] [Illustration: BRIGADIER-GENERAL G. J. PILLOW, C. S. A.] [Illustration: MAJOR-GENERAL BUSHROD JOHNSON, C. S. A.] The Confederate Government had made a treaty with some of the tribes in the Indian Territory, and had taken into its service more than four thousand Indians, whom the stories of Bull Run and Wilson's Creek had apparently impressed with the belief that they would have little to do but scalp the wounded and rob the dead. At Pea Ridge these red men exhibited their old-time terror of artillery, and though they took a few scalps they were so disgusted at being asked to face half a hundred well-served cannon that they were almost useless to their allies, and thenceforth they took no further part in the war. It is a notable fact that in the wars on this continent the Indians have only been employed on the losing side. In the French and English struggle for the country, which ended in 1763, the French had the friendship of many of the tribes, and employed them against the English settlers and soldiers, but the French were conquered nevertheless. In the Revolution and the war of 1812, the British employed them to some extent against the Americans, but the Americans were victorious. In the great Rebellion, the Confederate Government {81} attempted to use them as allies in the West and Southwest, and in that very section the Confederate cause was first defeated. All of which appears to show that though savages may add to the horrors of war, they cannot determine its results for civilized people; nor can irresponsible guerilla bands, of which there were many at the West, nearly all in the service of the Confederacy. [Illustration: MAJOR-GENERAL SAMUEL R. CURTIS.] [Illustration: MAJOR-GENERAL EARL VAN DORN, C. S. A.] [Illustration: BREVET MAJOR-GENERAL A. ASBOTH.] [Illustration: BATTLE OF PEA RIDGE, MARCH 6, 1862.]