At around noon on August 30, the small fleet reached Eunice, Arkansas. The wharf boat was captured and prepared for towing to Helena.
(A wharf boat is a boat moored and used for a wharf at a bank of a river or in a like situation where the height of the water is so variable that a fixed wharf in impracticable. One source here said that the one at Eunice was being used as a hotel.)
A man named Mason, who was suspected of being a guerrilla was arrested as was the river watchman, John McDonald.
Military supplies left by Confederates were gathered and the Union force returned to Helena, arriving September 3.
The Little-Big Engagement at Eurnice. --Old B-R'er
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