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John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 15 : (search)
Chapter 15:
The retreat of Banks
Taylor's force reduced
Walker and Churchill sent against Steele
Natchitoches and Cloutierville
Yellow Bayou the last battle
Louisianians at Mobile
Gibson's Farewell address
surrender of General Taylor.
Taylor had camped on the battle ground of Pleasant Hill.
The same night s playing a fanfare of defiance.
From this on the Federals constantly retreated and constantly resisted, yet always fighting with numbers on their side.
At Yellow bayou, May 18th, near the Atchafalaya, the haven where they would be, Wharton, like a wolf-dog, was at them again, attacking them fiercely.
All the enemy had crosse s over rural Louisiana.
Of this quiet, Taylor, who was there, wrote twelve years after the surrender of Louisiana, as of his own knowledge: From the action of Yellow Bayou to the close of the war not a gun was fired in the Trans-Mississippi department.
More even than her Beauregard, Taylor had fought for his native State on he