hide
Named Entity Searches
hide
Matching Documents
The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.
Browsing named entities in Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore). You can also browse the collection for Carrollton, La. (Louisiana, United States) or search for Carrollton, La. (Louisiana, United States) in all documents.
Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 218 (search)
Doc.
205.-fight on the Mississippi.
Surgeon read's report.
Carrollton, near New Orleans, September 12. To Governor Morton:
sir: I have to report that the Twenty-first regiment of Indiana volunteers performed a very brilliant achievement on the eighth instant, twenty-five miles from New-Orleans, up the Mississippi and on its right bank, in utterly routing and dispersing five hundred mounted Texan Rangers, driving them into the swamps and capturing most of their horses.
The guerrillas had for some time been molesting our steamers by firing into them, as they passed up and down.
News reached headquarters that a regiment of Texan Rangers had come to aid in these outrages, and our regiment, with two others, were ordered up to disperse them, part to land above and part to land below them, to preclude the possibility of their escape.
On the night of the seventh a part of the Fourth Wisconsin embarked on a transport, and at daylight next morning landed at the supposed place