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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 9: the Red River expedition. (search)
th General Lee's cavalry in the van, followed by two thin divisions of the Thirteenth Corps, under General Ransom. General Emory followed Ransom with the First Division This was a division of picked men, composed of the Third Iowa, Forty-first, Eighty-first, and Ninety-fifth Illinois, Fourteenth and Thirty-third Wisconsin, and the Fifty-eighth Ohio, all infantry. of the Nineteenth Corps, and a brigade of colored troops, which had just come up from Port Hudson. On the following morning, April 7. General Smith followed with a part of the Sixteenth Corps, while a division of the Seventeenth, under T. Kilby Smith,. twenty-five hundred strong, went up the river as a guard to the transports, which moved very slowly. General Smith was directed to conduct them to Loggy Bayou, opposite Springfield, about half way between Natchitoches and Shreveport, and there to halt and communicate with the army, at Sabine Cross Roads, fifty-four miles from Grand Ecore. General Lee had already encoun
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 21: closing events of the War.--assassination of the President. (search)
five thousand This was, in round numbers, the sum of men surrendered and paroled. There were also 108 pieces of artillery surrendered, with equipments complete; also about 15,000 small-arms. A large number had strayed away with arms, horses, mules and wagons. General Johnston, in an Address to the people of the Southern States, on the 6th of May, said that on the day of the capitulation the forces under his command, present and absent, were 70,510, including cavalry, reported on the 7th of April at 5,440. The total present with him, was 18,578, but the total effective or fighting force was only 14,179. The capitulation included all the troops in Johnston's Military Department, which comprised the sea-board States south of Virginia. On the 4th of May, General Taylor surrendered, at Citronelle, the Confederate forces in Alabama, to General Canby, on terms substantially like those accorded to Lee and Johnston. At the same time and place, Commander Farrand, as we have observed,