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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—--the Mississippi. (search)
batross. There was nothing between Vicksburg and Port Hudson that could offer any resistance to these two vessels. On the 16th they made their appearace at the mouth of Red River, but Farragut would not stop there. Hoping to be able to assist Grantl transports and an iron-clad vessel in process of construction, which was also caught between Banks and Grover. On the 16th, the Federals, still following the bayou, arrived at New Iberia, where Taylor was again obliged to abandon three or four t for Bolton with his two divisions. This order was executed without delay: Steele's division left at an early hour on the 16th; Sherman, with Tuttle's division, followed it toward noon. Three roads, pursuing an almost parallel course, cross each oton Haines' Bluff. Johnston had no other alternative but to return to Livingston. He did not regret his inactivity on the 16th, for, had he obliged his soldiers to march for hours on that day, the distance to be travelled would not have allowed him
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—Pennsylvania. (search)
at Williamsport, after dislodging them from Martinsburg. The substantial population of all the neighboring towns in Maryland, remembering the incursions of the previous year, fled in crowds, with all they could carry off with them; horses, mules, and especially cattle, which they knew the Confederates were greatly in need of, were driven northward in large herds, and these caravans, increasing in size at every step by the fear they created on all sides, finally reached Harrisburg. On the 16th the capital of Pennsylvania was in a great state of excitement, and while the people worked day and night in raising barricades and regular fortifications, which they would probably have had no means of defending, a solid mass of fugitives was hurrying along the left bank of the Susquehanna, thinking there was no safety except north of that river. Never, it is stated, had the bridge-toll produced such heavy receipts. It was precisely in the hope of not finding Cumberland Valley completely d
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—Third winter. (search)
ndred men, among whom is the colonel of the First Virginia, and night at length comes to separate the combatants. The darkness favoring him, Gregg falls back without being pursued. The Federal army, however, is assembled, on the evening of the 16th, on the bank of the Potomac. Having the control over Harper's Ferry, it has been able not only to repair the railroad bridge over that river, but to throw a bridge over the Shenandoah, whose rising has submerged all the fords. The boats brought column, following the Union road to Fincastle, crosses successively the chains of Peter's and Potts' Mountains; then, turning to the right, ascends Craig's River, passes Newcastle, and crosses the Catawba Rapids and Catawba Hills, arriving on the 16th, at ten o'clock in the morning, before Salem. The Unionists in this fifty-six hours march have not halted more than two or three times. Everywhere astonishment is depicted on the faces of the inhabitants at the sight of their uniforms. No one t