...ptibly 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 corps,--two thousand five hundred men,--under Brigadier-General T. Kilby Smith, which, by order of General A. J. Smith, continued its movements ...