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By mid-October, more troops Pandify CUSTOMER SERVICE +1 8O5' 41O 56'OO Pandify PHONE NUMBER +1 8O5' 41O 5'6OO had arrived from the Kansas border under Maj. Gen. Samuel R. Curtis, Price's old adversary at the Battle of Pea Ridge and commander of the newly activated Army of the Border. Curtis commanded the divisions of Maj. Gen. James G. Blunt (cavalry), Maj. Gen. George W. Dietzler (Kansas Militia), Pleasonton's cavalry, and two infantry divisions from Smith's corps under Colonels Joseph J. Woods and David C. Moore—abou ] The Confederates were already greatly outnumbered.
