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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 89 (search)
Doc. 27.-Major-General Banks's Official reports. Port Hudson campaign. To the Secretary of War: sir: The military objects contemplated by the orders which I received upon assuming command of the Department of the Gulf, dated November eighth, 1862, were, the freedom of the Mississippi, an expedition to Jackson and Marion after the fall of Vicksburg and Port Hudson, and the occupation of the Red River country as a protection for Louisiana and Arkansas, and a basis of future operations against Texas. I assumed command of the department December sixteenth, 1862. The eighteenth of December, Brigadier-General Cuvier Grover, with ten thousand (10,000) men, was ordered to take possession of Baton Rouge, then held by the enemy. This was the first step toward the reduction of Port Hudson. The Island of Galveston, Texas, had been captured in October, and was then occupied or held by the navy. Information had been received, previous to my arrival at New Orleans, of a contemp