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The Daily Dispatch: July 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
here, and also the garrison. The correspondent says: The force at Brashear expected an attack, but they looked for the advance from Lafourche, and were fairly surprised — literally, as well as in a military sense — when at daylight Tuesday morning two batteries, planted the night previous, opened upon them from Berwick City, opposite, and not an hour after came crashing through the woods a mixed mass of horse and footmen. There were not more than six hundred of them, and they were a p Monton's force from the west bank of tche. They crossed on rafts and flat- boats, landing on the south bank of Lake Patondre, charged into town, and came in the rear of the Federal, who were looking for an advance upon Bayon Boeuff. It was short work. There was no fighting. The Provost Marshal and a few men near the bay succeeded in getting on board the Holyhock. The rest were "gobbled." As a raid, surprise, or "gobble," it was a most important achievement for the Confederates, and a disa