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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the Third winter. (search)
ined at sea under the orders of Commodore Bell will be joined to the expedition that Banks, after a luckless attempt, shall undertake against Texas: the narrative of this expedition belongs to the ensuing chapter. Hence a useless cannonade on October 12th against a blockade-runner which had taken refuge under the fire of Fort Morgan at Mobile, and the engagement of the steamer Bermuda with a party of Confederates, who captured and then lost on November 14th a Federal schooner laden with coal, aonfederate, refusing fight, pushed to the north-west, and reached the banks of the Missouri at Booneville, closely followed by Brown. Not being able to cross the river, he ascended rapidly its right bank, but he was attacked on the evening of October 12th at the crossing of a small stream, the Salt Fork, which empties into the river about eight miles below Arrow Rock. Fearing, doubtless, fatigue for his soldiers, Shelby waited for daylight, and the fight, resumed on the morning of the 13th, en