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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
s promised ten thousand men, three thousand of whom were to be detached from the Fourth army corps. Hill, who was in command of a large division, had made the Carolinians believe, and through them the Federals, that his forces were much more numerous. Longstreet, on his part, having spread the rumor that he was going to lead his troops to Charleston, the Federal military authorities had yielded credence to it, and were the less reluctant to take away one brigade from Peck that on the 14th of March the latter had received with Getty's division, detached from the Ninth corps, the effective force of which amounted to from nine to fourteen thousand men. This is what Longstreet, who was perfectly well informed by his spies of all that was taking place in the Federal camps, was waiting for, in order to strike a decisive blow against Suffolk. On the 10th of April the troops intended to join Foster took the cars that were to convey them from Suffolk to Norfolk: just as the first train wa
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—--the Mississippi. (search)
d three men disabled. The loss of the Mississippi, and the return of four out of the six vessels which were to pass the batteries, rendered the attempt of the 14th of March a positive failure: Banks, on being informed of it, took the back track and returned to Baton Rouge. From what he had been able to learn, the garrison of Portwhich close the navigation of the river against them, are in hopes of assisting each other between Port Hudson and Vicksburg. After the battle fought on the 14th of March by Farragut's fleet against the batteries of Port Hudson, Banks had returned to New Orleans with a portion of his troops, leaving only Augur's division at Batoreplaced Emory. The centre was formed by Augur, the left by Sherman. The Federal fleet, which had been watching Port Hudson from below since the fight of the 14th of March, consisted of four vessels—the Monongahela, the Richmond, the Essex, and the Genesee. The two ships that had forced the passage of the Confederate batteries wi