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Historic leaves, volume 7, April, 1908 - January, 1909, chapter 5 (search)
the way by vultures, the so-called turkey buzzards of the South, who, perched in platoons on the dead limbs of the cypress, seemed like vanguards of ill omen from the realms of Pluto. On April 11 we crossed Berwick Bay to Berwick City, and on April 12 began that march of three hundred miles whose destination proved to be Port Hudson. In speaking of Port Hudson, we can hardly leave out the strategic manoeuvres which led up to its investment and capture. I have thus been led to recite the preand after a desultory fight, he succeeded only in driving the rebels, not in capturing them. Banks, with the rest of the army, had made a front attack on Taylor's forces behind the fortifications at Bisland, which lasted from the afternoon of April 12 to the afternoon of April 14, when Taylor silently withdrew and escaped capture; not, however, until after our forces had nearly succeeded in flanking him. The rebels fled in great precipitation, throwing away arms, knapsacks, and ammunition,