Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Galveston” in chapter 1, page 59 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative:
...uperior force of Confederates, and of having, for a body of wholly raw soldiers, come out of the affair with honor.
They were ordered by General Banks, Dec. 19, 1862, to proceed from New Orleans to Galveston
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