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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 89 (search)
ot go below Grand Ecore, and it was now certain that the fleet would not pass the falls at Alexandria. Lieutenant-Commander Selfredge, left in command of the fleet by the Admiral, who had gone to Alexandria, addressed me a despatch dated seventeenth April, stating that he had been informed the army was to withdraw immediately, and that it would be impossible, in that case, to get the gunboats down the river. I informed him at once that the army had no intention of withdrawing from the posithdrawal of his vessels, nor of his apprehensions of the retreat of the army. I gave him at that time distinct information of my plans, which were to advance. This fact was communicated to Lieutenant-Commander Selfredge in my letter of the seventeenth April. The Admiral expressed the same confidence in the rise of the river to officers of the army, who, from long experience in the Red River country, were equally confident that it would not rise. The difficulties attending the voyage of the