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The Daily Dispatch: May 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], The War News — Grant Quiet — Another Reverse for Butler on the Southside — the battles in Louisiana, &c. (search)
Court House yesterday morning. Last night at 8 o'clock the telegraph wire was lapped at some point between this city and the junction, and it is supposed that they are at their work at some point on the Central Railroad. The recent fight in Louisiana. The following official dispatch was received at the War Department yesterday from Lieut. Gen. Kirby Smith. It gives the result of the battles heretofore reported in Louisiana. Headq'rs Trans Mississippi Dep't,Shreveport, La., April 12. Gen. S. Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector General.Sir. --I have the honor to report that the thirteenth army corps of Gen. Banks's command was signally defeated three miles below Mansfield, La., on the afternoon of the 8th. The nineteenth army corps coming to its support, was repulsed with loss and in disorder. Reinforced by parts of the sixteenth and seventeenth corps, the enemy in force made a stand at Pleasant Hill, a strong position, twenty miles below Mansfield. Our troops s