Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3.
Henry Coppee , LL.D., Ed.

The attack has been a failure. At ten o'clock Holmes gives the signal for retreat. The remnants of Price's division, stationed in the work of the centre, evacuate it under a fire which causes great ravages among them, and toward evening the whole army sadly winds its way in the direction of Clarendon. On the same day, the 4th of July, as we will see presently, Grant was making his entry into Vicksburg.

The Federals were unable to pursue the enemy: they were scarcely three thousand strong, and the latter had left eleven hundred prisoners in their hands, among whom there was a large number of wounded. Holmes' losses amounted to 1636 men; those of Price,¹ to hardly 250.

After this combat the Army of the Arkansas plunged into the interior of this State as quickly as it had come out, whilst Walker's cavalry brigade descended the Mississippi in the direction of Milliken's Bend. It roamed for a long time around the Federal depots, seizing every occasion to capture such detachments as were imprudent enough to stray too far from them, and preventing the enemy from occupying the rich plantations of the interior <*>