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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 110 0 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 66 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 64 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 60 0 Browse Search
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 56 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 52 0 Browse Search
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 52 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 50 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 34 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 32 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: March 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], The News yesterday. (search)
The Baltimore American, of the 25th and 26th instant, have been received. We subjoin a summary of the news: The Red river expedition. The Red river expedition has met with an important success in the capture of Fort De Russey, with 283 prisoners and several heavy guns. Our land forces, under Gen. Smith landed a few miles below the fort, when Gen. Taylor, the rebel commander, attempted an attack on the rear of our forces with the view of cutting off our communications with the riRed river expedition has met with an important success in the capture of Fort De Russey, with 283 prisoners and several heavy guns. Our land forces, under Gen. Smith landed a few miles below the fort, when Gen. Taylor, the rebel commander, attempted an attack on the rear of our forces with the view of cutting off our communications with the river. With a quick perception of the advantages thus opened to us Gen. Smith abandoned his communications with the river, and struck out boldly for Fort De Russey, which, by forced marches, he reached and captured before the rebels could regain their stronghold. Admiral Porter at once steamed up to Alexandria. This success gives us control of one of the richest cotton regions of the Southwest. The Army of the Potomac. Lieut.-General Grant and staff arrived at the headquarters of the
The Daily Dispatch: March 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], The News yesterday. (search)
From the Southwest.[official Dispatch.] Mobile, March 26, 1864. To Gen. S. Cooper: News from New Orleans to the 18th inst. has been received. The Yankees have met with a severe reverse near New Iberia--two regiments reported captured. All the gunboats except eight have left for Red river.--It is reported that Fort De Russey was taken by assault on the 14th inst., but the report is not credited. On the 18th inst., Col. Holland, with the 31st Mississippi regiment, attacked the enemy on Choctaw Hatchie bay. An entire boat's crew of about twenty-five were killed or drowned. No loss on our side. Col. Holland captured over five hundred head of cattle and some twenty horses. D. H. Maury, Major General.