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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the war in the South-West. (search)
er the bluff, could not reply to them, the other vessels, taking them obliquely and at a distance, soon crushed them with their fire. How could they resist more than sixty pieces of large calibre? After having struggled stubbornly, Polignac was obliged to withdraw his troops and keep at a distance from the river. Ramsay landed a few sailors, who destroyed the works and captured two or three abandoned cannon; he did the same thing at Trinity when passing by, and entered Red River on the 5th of March. He had reached but a few miles beyond Harrisonburg when, the waters of the Washita having rapidly receded, he feared he could not again get down the river. Immediately after his departure Polignac returned to Trinity, but he remained there only a few days, and was recalled to Alexandria, as we shall presently see. During this short expedition Porter had finally collected all the available war-vessels at the mouth of Red River. The return of Ramsay increased the effective force of t