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ter capturing three pieces of artillery and three hundred prisoners. He was, however, soon compelled to retire before the small Federal army, which, striking the route followed by Major a month before, took possession of the whole Lafourche district without striking a blow. On the 22d of July, Taylor evacuated Brashear City, and retired toward the interior by ascending the Bayou Teche. On the 16th of July, for the first time since the beginning of the strife, a vessel coming direct from Cairo was moored at the wharves of New Orleans. The Federal flag which floated at her mast's head had not drawn a single cannon-shot upon her during the whole voyage. The Mississippi was open, the Confederacy was split in two, and the States of the Far West, being no longer able to supply the Southern armies with the resources they so much needed, had but an insignificant part to play for the remainder of the war. A few days previously Vicksburg had witnessed the last act in the great drama w