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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the Third winter. (search)
the Atchafalaya with three brigades of infantry and one of cavalry to surprise a portion of Colonel Leake's brigade, which Herron had left on the left bank of this stream to watch the passages across it. Leake had posted himself, with two regiments of infantry numbering about six hundred men and two cannon, at nine miles from Morganzia. He had placed his two hundred and fifty cavalry, under Mar with a regiment of cavalry, and Mouton's and Speight's two brigades of infantry direct against Leake, had taken a circuitous route with the rest of his troops to attack the latter in the rear and pf on his line of retreat. Boone, being the first to attack, separated the Union cavalrymen from Leake's troops, and, pushing them in disorder in another direction, did not permit them to give LeakeLeake the alarm. At the same time Speight, followed by Mouton, marched rapidly and fell unexpectedly on the Federal infantry. The latter, surprised and hastily drawn up, defended itself energetically.