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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 88 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 34 32 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 7 7 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 6 0 Browse Search
John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 6 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. 5 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 4 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 3 1 Browse Search
Rev. James K. Ewer , Company 3, Third Mass. Cav., Roster of the Third Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment in the war for the Union 3 1 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.). You can also browse the collection for Yellow Bayou (Louisiana, United States) or search for Yellow Bayou (Louisiana, United States) in all documents.

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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the war in the South-West. (search)
same height above the water. It was not, for that, the less practicable, and was opened on the 19th. During its construction Smith remained on the borders of Yellow Bayou, a small tributary of the Atchafalaya which flows westward from Simsport, in order to protect it and cover the rest of the army. The enemy, in fact, became mottack upon their rearguard near Bayou Glaise, and one of his regiments, following close, captured some wagons from it that evening in the very neighborhood of Yellow Bayou. The next day, Taylor, who had come up with Polignac's infantry, was resolved to make a last effort to give the Federals trouble before they had crossed the Atchafalaya. Toward evening he made a vigorous attack upon A. J. Smith in the position which the latter had taken on Yellow Bayou. The latter, not expecting this attack, had gone to Simsport, and had left the command of his troops to General Mower. A desperate combat was soon begun. In spite of the repeated charges of the Confe