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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 355 3 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1 147 23 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 137 13 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 135 7 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 129 1 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 125 13 Browse Search
Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson 108 38 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 85 7 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 84 12 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 70 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1864., [Electronic resource], The News. (search)
. The expedition was planned by Franklin, and the Yankees expected to make Shreveport their base, and therefrom to enter Texas through the northeastern counties. Banks was sure of finding Steels in possession of Shreveport, and was intensely chagrined when informed that he was not there. A courtier from Banks to Steele was interBanks to Steele was intercepted at Shreveport, carrying orders for Steele to fall back as rapidly as possible; that Banks had advanced on Shreveport expecting to find 6,000 men there but had met 60,000. Matches and Baton Rouge are crowded to excess with wounded. The extent of our victory on Red river cannot be exaggerated. Prince Polignac was promotBanks had advanced on Shreveport expecting to find 6,000 men there but had met 60,000. Matches and Baton Rouge are crowded to excess with wounded. The extent of our victory on Red river cannot be exaggerated. Prince Polignac was promoted on the field. His clothes were riddled with bullets. He succeeds Monton and Wharton succeeds Green. Meridian, May 8, via Mobile, May 8.--Lieut. W. R. Wron, of Wirt Adams' cavalry, went within six miles of Vicksburg recently, capturing and killing a number of Yankees and bringing away their equipments. He destroyed two Go
The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1864., [Electronic resource], Important arrival. (search)
A very cheerful Spring. --As the Mobile Register remarks, there is not a State in the Confederacy, with the exception of Missouri, where we have no force, in which within about two months past the Confederate arms have not achieved some success or the Yankees met with a failure. Thus we have-- In Texas, Benavides's affair at Laredo. In Louisiana, Banks's defeat at Mansfield. In Arkansas, the capture of Jacksonport, and possibly by this time the discomfiture of Steele. In Kentucky, the capture of Paducah. In Tennessee, the capture of Fort Pillow. In Mississippi, the defeat of Grierson. In Alabama, the Yankee failure at Fort Powell. In Florida, the victory of Olustee. In Georgia, the repulse of Crow's valley. In South Carolina, the confessed failure of the siege of Charleston. In North Carolina, the capture of Plymouth In Virginia, the defeat of Dahlgren's raid. There are others besides but we have confined ourselves to a single affair in
The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1864., [Electronic resource], Important arrival. (search)
From the United States. Dalton, May 2. --Northern dates of the 28th have been received here. The following is a synopsis of the news: Louisville, April 27.--It is believed that Lee would not venture on an offensive movement. The Tribune has a special dispatch which says that the 9th army corps is now 40,000 strong. It is said in high quarters that the President intends sending Sickles to relieve Banks. Admiral Wilkes has been dismissed from service. Gen. Foster has been appointed to a command in the field, and he will probably be assigned to Burnside's corps. Liverpool. 13th.--Cotton had advanced ¼d to ½d in Liverpool. Consols, 91¾
The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1864., [Electronic resource], From Gen. Bank's Department. (search)
sent to Plaquemine, the remainder at the former city. A fine steamer from St. Louis, with a large number of horses, mules, sheep, &c., and seven hundred bales of cotton, took fire just as she arrived at Plaquemine, and was a total loss. Banks had stripped the whole section of country of troops for his Red river expedition. The garrison left were mostly negro troops. Trade is constantly going on between the Yankees and Confederates, the latter generally bribing the Yankee picen, selling a negro to pay for the cotton, whose husband is a Yankee spy and detective in New Orleans. The steamers are full of detectives, as many as eleven being on the boat our friend was on.--New Orleans is full of them — in fact, you can trust no one, as many pass themselves as Confederates. Take it altogether the news is encouraging. People are true to our cause and hopeful, while the Federals are sick of the war. The late defeat of Banks had caused a deep feeling of despondency.