Second Charge upon the Confederates by General Fremont’s Bodyguard, under Major Zagonyi, near Springfield, Mo., On October 25th, 1861
(from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated History of the Civil War…, edited by Louis Shepheard Moat, Published by Mrs. Frank Leslie, New York, 1895)
“After the first charge of Major Zagonyi, described on another page, Captain McNaughton reached the scene with fifty men. The order to follow the retreating Confederates was given, and all dashed ahead for a second charge through the woods. Many of the fugitives were overtaken there, as well as in the streets of Springfield and in the forest beyond the city. Only when further pursuit seemed useless did the Federals return. Zagony’s brave followers suffered a loss of eighty-four dead and wounded in this engagement, which, for the boldness of its undertaking and the rapidity of its execution under the great disparity of numbers, certainly has but few parallels in any history.”