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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
parole a number of Federal officers and soldiers, an accident to his machinery rendered him for some time utterly powerless. But a bolder project, and one more worthy of the military flag which he flew so boldly when in pursuit of inoffensive merchantmen, soon called him into other waters. General Banks was then enlisting troops in Massachusetts, destined, it was said, to land at Galveston for the purpose of invading Texas. In reality, they were to assist the fleet in conquering the Lower Mississippi, and we have seen that only two regiments were despatched in the direction of Galveston. But the newspapers positively announced that a whole army was to land on the 10th of January on the coast of Texas. Semmes conceived the idea of falling suddenly upon the fleet of transports which conveyed this army while it was being landed. In order to conceal his whereabouts he hid himself during the period of one month among the small islands of the Yucatan coast; then, on the 11th of Januar
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—--the Mississippi. (search)
eak of the operations of Banks and Farragut along the Lower Mississippi: we will show the efforts they made to assist Grant aquently overflowed its banks, the government of the State of Mississippi, in order to stop these inundations, a few years beortance on the part of the Federal cavalry into the State of Mississippi prepared the way for those successes which were to oving slowly through it, might be undertaken in the State of Mississippi, a country rich in cattle, by an army of from thirtnvested. The undertaking was a bold one, for the State of Mississippi is very unlike European countries, where resources Brashear City, try to interrupt the navigation of the Lower Mississippi, and even menace New Orleans, thus obliging the Army unters which took place in the northern part of the State of Mississippi. After Grierson's expedition, which took him as fag troops over to him, which would have left the whole Lower Mississippi and New Orleans utterly defenceless and exposed to th