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Hempstead, Texas (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 89
the other on its way to Alexandria: from Trinity (the junction of the Ouachita, Little, and Tensas Rivers) Banks was organizing his expedition at Berwick's Bay. Colonel Vincent, with the Second Louisiana cavalry and a battery, was near Opelousas, watching him. General Liddell, with a brigade of cavalry and several batteries, was near Monroe, watching the approaches from Natchez and Vicksburg. Green's cavalry, although ordered to move two weeks before this, did not leave the vicinity of Hempstead, Texas, till the fifteenth March, and did not reach General Taylor till between the first and fifth of April. The strength of the column which landed at Simmsport was, as it usually is, overestimated. General Walker, whose force, compared to it, was as four to ten, fell back up the Bayou De Glaize to a point near Fort De Russy, and thence moved to Evergreen, about thirty miles south of Alexandria, where he was joined by General Taylor with Mouton's division. Meanwhile General Walker had le
Thompson's Creek (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 89
captured by Grierson at Jackson, one hundred and fifty; First and Fifteenth Arkansas, captured May twenty-seventh, one hundred and one; on board steamers in Thompson's Creek, twenty-five; deserters, two hundred and fifty; sick and wounded, one thousand; captured at Donaldsonville, the twenty-eighth of June, one hundred and fifty;y. During the campaign at Port Hudson, the steamers Starlight and Red Chief were captured by Grierson's Illinois cavalry under command of Colonel Prince, in Thompson's Creek. The bed of the creek was nearly dry, and the steamers were sunk several feet in the sand. After the capture of Port Hudson, Colonel Bailey constructed winl engineer, familiar with works of that kind, common to slack water navigation upon all the Western rivers, and had successfully released the steamboats from Thompson's Creek, on the Mississippi. Colonel Bailey had suggested the practicability of the dam while we were at Grand Ecore, and had offered to release the Eastport when a
Point Isabel (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 89
made my headquarters. Major-General Dana was left in command of this post. As soon as it was possible to provide for the garrison and obtain transportation for the navigation of the river, which occupied four or five days, I moved with all the troops which could be spared from that point for the purpose of occupying the passes on the coast between the Rio Grande and Galveston, intending to complete my original plan by the occupation of Galveston from the coast below, instead of above. Point Isabel was occupied on the eighth of November. By the aid of steamers obtained on the Rio Grande, with the consent of the Mexican government, we were enabled to transport troops to Mustang Island. The troops were under the command of Brigadier-General T. E. G. Ransom, who carried the enemy's works commanding Aransas Pass, after a gallant assault, capturing nearly one hundred prisoners and the artillery with which the place was defended. The troops instantly moved upon Pass Cavallo, commanding
Fortress Monroe (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 89
ough not entirely of failure. The command of Major-General Steele, which I was informed by Major-General Sherman would be about fifteen thousand men, was in fact but seven thousand, and operating upon a line several hundred miles distant, with purposes and results entirely unknown to me. February fifth, I was informed by General Steele that if any advance was to be made, it must be by the Wachita and Red Rivers, and that he might be able to move his command by the way of Pine Bluff, to Monroe, for this purpose. This would have united our forces on Red River, and insured the success of the campaign. The twenty-eighth of February, he informed me that he could not move by the way of Monroe, and on the fourth of March, the day before my command was ordered to move, I was informed by General Sherman that he had written to General Steele to push straight to Shreveport. March fifth, I was informed by General Halleck, that he had no information of General Steele's plans, further than
Rapides Parish (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 89
all possible despatch. The troops labored with alacrity and vigor to suppress the conflagration, but owing to a high wind, and the combustible material of the buildings, it was found impossible to limit its progress, and a considerable portion of the town was destroyed. On the first of April, two or three days before the army moved from Alexandria to Natchitoches, an election of delegates to the Constitutional Convention was held at Alexandria, by request of the citizens of the Parish of Rapides. No officer or soldier interfered with or had any part in this matter. It was left exclusively to the loyal citizens of the place. Three hundred votes were given in this election, which was a large majority of all the voting population in the parish. Fifteen hundred votes were a full representation of the people before the war. Nearly five hundred men from this and neighboring parishes enlisted in the army as mounted scouts, and rendered efficient and valuable services during the c
Henderson Hill (Utah, United States) (search for this): chapter 89
Colonel Davis, commanding cavalry brigade, did not succeed in gaining the enemy's right flank and rear; but as soon as the enemy broke, I sent forward Colonel Chrisler, supported by Colonel Cribbs,--both cavalry commanders,--supported by General Cameron, to pursue the enemy and capture his artillery if possible. The main force of the enemy took the Fort Jessup road. One small regiment, either because it was hard pressed, or with the intention of misleading our troops, retreated on the Henderson Hill road. Colonel Chrisler, unfortunately deceived by this movement of the enemy's rear guard, the darkness of the night, and the ardor of the pursuit, led off on the wrong road. Our whole loss in killed, wounded, and missing, is only about two hundred (200) men, one hundred and fifty-three (153) of whom are from the Third brigade, First division. Enclosed are the reports of the several commanders, and the chiefs of cavalry and artillery, and I have to thank them, and also my staff, f
De Soto, Jefferson County, Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 89
s attempt failed on account of the complete stoppage of Bayou Plaquemine by three years accumulation of drift logs and snags, filling the bayou from the bed of the stream, and rendering it impenetrable to our boats, and requiring the labor of months to open it for navigation. The troops were engaged in this work most of the month of February. During the operations on Bayou Plaquemine and the Atchafalaya, news was received of the capture by the enemy of the steamers Queen of the west and De Soto, which had run past the batteries at Vicksburg. This event was deemed of sufficient importance, by Admiral Farragut, to demand the occupation of the Mississippi between Port Hudson and Vicksburg, by running the batteries on the river at Port Hudson, in order to destroy these boats, and cut off the enemy's communication by the Red River with Vicksburg and Port Hudson, thus accomplishing, by a swifter course, the object of our campaign west of the river. The army was called upon to make a d
Matagorda Island (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 89
, and a force of two thousand men,--artillery, cavalry, and infantry,--who could be reenforced in any emergency from Houston and Galveston. The troops were under command of Major-General C. C. Washburne, then commanding the thirteenth corps. Fort Esperanza was invested, and after a most gallant action the enemy blew up his magazines, partially dismantled his defences, and evacuated the position, the major part of his men escaping to the main land by the peninsula near the mouth of the Brazos. The occupation of Brownsville and Brazos Santiago, the capture of the works and garrison at Aransas Pass, and the defeat of the enemy and the capture of his works at Fort Esperanza, by our troops, left. nothing on the coast in his possession but the works at the mouth of Brazos River and on the Island of Galveston, which were formidable and defended by all the forces of the enemy in Texas. The command of General Magruder had been withdrawn from different parts of the state, and concentrated
Mobile, Ala. (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 89
on, was second in importance only to New Orleans or Mobile. The defensive positions of the enemy in the depommending an immediate movement against the city of Mobile. My views upon the question were expressed in seveed by me in previous despatches against the city of Mobile was fully appreciated, but there were reasons other and leaving the army of the Gulf free to move upon Mobile, in accordance with my original plan, or wherever irations, suggested in August and September, against Mobile. The Rio Grande and the Island of Galveston coul. The occupation of the Rio Grande, Galveston, and Mobile would have led to the capture or destruction of alla view to a movement in the spring campaign against Mobile, which was certainly to be made if troops enough coGulf Coast, hoping, by the capture of Galveston and Mobile, to put my command in readiness for an effective cooperation, by Mobile and the Alabama River, with General Sherman, precisely in accordance with the campaign su
Covington (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 89
ficer in command until further orders. This despatch was not received until it was impossible to move either up or down the river from Alexandria. It was of course impracticable to execute these instructions. Until the fourth of May communication with the Mississippi by the river was unobstructed. Lieutenant William Simpson, of my staff, left by the gunboat Signal, with despatches for Lieutenant-General Grant, Admiral Farragut, General Sherman, and General Rosecrans. The gunboat Covington, having in convoy the transport Warner, accompanied the Signal. We received news, on the morning of the sixth, of the destruction of the gunboats and the transport. The enemy had established a battery near Marksville, supported by a large infantry force. Communication with the Mississippi was closed from this date. About four hundred men, of the Fifty-sixth Ohio volunteers, were on board the Warner. A part of them joined our troops below, and a portion of them pierced the lines of t
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