uted materially to the defense.
The numbers engaged cannot have been far from equal — about 2500 on either side.
When Williams fell, Colonel Thomas W. Cahill, of Connecticut, succeeded to the command.
On the 6th he was relieved by Colonel Halbert E. Paine, 4th Wisconsin, who had been sent up from New Orleans by Butler on receiving the first news of the battle.
Being still menaced by Breckin-ridge, the troops took up a new and shorter line, extending from Bayou Grosse by the tannery and penitentiary to the neighborhood of the capitol; at 3 o'clock every morning they stood to arms, and by the 13th Colonel Paine, with characteristic care and energy, had strongly intrenched the arsenal grounds, with 24 guns in position, and with the cooperation of the navy concerted every measure for an effective defense against numbers.
By General Butler's orders the library and a statue of Washington, in the capitol, were packed and shipped to New Orleans.
On the 20th, by Butler's orders, Bato
ting each other, by merely hurling masses of men against them.
Intended, of course, to be simultaneous in every quarter, it failed to be so. Our batteries opened early in the morning; and, after a vigorous bombardment, Gens. Weitzel, Grover, and Paine, on our right, assaulted with vigor at 10 A. M., while Gen. Augur, in our center, and Gen. T. W. Sherman, on our left, did not attack in earnest till 2 P M. Meantime, the Hartford and Albatross above, and the Monongahela, Richmond, Genesee, and Eave fallen short, in the entire 45 days, of 3,000 men; including, beside those already named, Cols. Bean, 4th Wise., Holcomb, 1st La., Smith, 160th N. Y. (Zouaves), Lt.-Cols. Lowell, 8th N. H., Rodman, 38th Mass., and other valued officers.
Brig.-Gen. Paine was wounded in the assault of June 14th.
Banks says the Rebels admitted a loss during the siege of 610 only; but he is confident that it could not have been less than 800 to 1,000; as he found 500 wounded in the hospitals — most of them sev
Riots — the popular reaction evinced by the State Election of 1863 was most incontestable: Gov. Seymour's majority of over 10,000 in 1862 being reversed by one of nearly 30,000
Total vote for Sec. State: Depew (Repub.), 314,347; St. John (Dem.), 284,942. for the Republican State ticket, with a corresponding Legislature; while Massachusetts--upon a far lighter vote than in 1862--gave a much larger majority.
In 1862, Gov. Andrew, 80,835 Devens, 52,587
In 1863, Gov. Andrew, 70,483 Paine, 29,207 And Maryland filled the measure of National triumph by electing Unionists to Congress in four of her five districts, and, for the first time, a distinctively Emancipation Controller and Legislature by some 20,000 majority.
New Jersey chose only a Legislature this year, and hence evinced no essential change; while in Delaware, which had to choose specially a Representative in Congress, the Democrats withdrew their candidate on the eve of Election, insisting that the voters were to
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Okolona, Miss., 617.
Old River, La., 328.
Oldtown, Md., 607.
Opelousas, La., 340.
Orangeburg, S. C., 699.
Orchard Ridge, Tenn., 438.
Padueah, Ky., 618.
Paine's X-Roads, Va., 740.
Palmetto Ranche, Tex., 757.
Parker's X-roads, Tenn., 283.
Petersburg Lines, Va., 734.
Philadelphia. Tenn., 431.
Pilot Knob, Mo., rt Hindman, 293; at Vicksburg, 312; with Sherman on his great march from Atlanta to Savannah, 689 to 695.
Ox Hill, Va., Jackson strikes Reno at, 188.
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Paine, Col. Halbert E., 4th Wise., refuses to expel colored refugees from his camp, 245.
Palmer, Gen. John M., at Stone River, 277; at Chickamauga, 415-17.
Palmers4; Gen. Burnside's Roanoke Island proclamation, 244; Gens. McCook, Buell, and Doubleday on slave-hunting, 244-6; Gen. Thomas Williams expels all fugitives, 246; Col. Paine of Wisconsin thereon, 246; Lt.-Col. D. R. Anthony thereon, 246; Gen. Hunter's order on, annulled by the President, 246-7; Gen. McClellan on, 248-9; Mr. Greeley'
