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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the war in the South-West. (search)
usand infantry and seventy guns. But Kilby Smith's detachment left him in all but twenty-five thousand available men for the march he was about to undertake toward Mansfield. This was doubtless more than his adversary could bring against him. However, if Banks had looked more to the general welfare than to the campaign from which he expected to gain—very legitimately, doubtless—personal glory, he should have halted at Grand Score. In fact, he had already received at Alexandria, on the 27th of March, a despatch from Grant containing positive instructions for him to send A. J. Smith's troops to Vicksburg and to abandon the attempt on Shreveport if the campaign was to be prolonged ten or fifteen days beyond the time appointed for the absence of these troops: a message from Sherman, which reached him on the 3d of April, informed him that this extended time expired on the 10th. General Corse, bearer of this message, had orders to take, with Smith, all the necessary steps to bring back t