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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 89 (search)
by sea or land. I was informed by a despatch dated the twelfth of August, and which I received on the twenty-seventh of August, that the importance of the operations proposed by me in previous despatches against the city of Mobile was fully appreciated, but there were reasons other than military why those directed in Texas should be undertaken first; that on this matter there was no choice, and that the views of the government must be carried out. I was advised in a despatch dated the tenth of August, that the restoration of the flag to some one point in Texas could be best effected by the combined military and naval movements upon Red River to Alexandria, Natchitoches, or Shreveport, and the occupation of Northern Texas. This line was recommended as superior, for military operations, to the occupation of Galveston or Indianola; but the final selection was left to my judgmant. The difficulties attending a movement in the direction of Shreveport — a route which had been thoroughl