...ording to the statements of prisoners and intercepted letters, about twenty-five thousand men with seventy-six guns. The river was perceptibly falling, and the larger gunboats were unable to pass Grand Ecore . The troops under command of General A. J. Smith, who had hitherto moved in transports by the river, now marched by land from Natchitoches, with the exception of one division of the Seventeenth cor...