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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 166 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) 132 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 110 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 74 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) 61 1 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 60 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 58 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 57 1 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. 48 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 36 0 Browse Search
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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the Third winter. (search)
The immense extent of this State, the little resources it offered, the scarcity of railroads, the lack of large streams, were obstacles the more serious as the number of Texans enlisted in the Confederate armies could leave no doubt as to the sentiments of the majority of the population. These difficulties were better understood at New Orleans than at Washington. General Halleck had recommended Banks to penetrate into Texas by way of the northeast, going up along the Red River as far as Natchitoches, or even as far as Shreveport; he expected that he could thus be supported —at quite a distance, it is true—by the expedition Steele was about to lead into the heart of Arkansas. But that would have been pushing the little invading army into the poorest part of the State, and wantonly removing it from its base of operations. Banks preferred, with good reason, to establish this base by the sea, where the mouths of rivers and short railroads penetrating into the interior offered him good
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)
ort Jesup by the hills, and on the other to Natchitoches by the valley of Red River, and crossed Canwhere he joined them after having waited at Natchitoches for the arrival of the Federals. This townation, a point situated eighteen miles from Natchitoches on the road from Fort Jesup to Mansfield, whe interim, established his headquarters at Natchitoches. Such was the feeble barrier that sufficent. A. J. Smith received orders to occupy Natchitoches on the 20th of April and to push forward reself, Wharton with Steele's cavalry entered Natchitoches, which the Federals had scarcely left, and ed River. He had left Banks on the 13th at Natchitoches, and brought back with him orally the officBanks would be able, as long he remained at Natchitoches, to resume the offensive if a rise in Red Rearned that Banks was fortifying himself at Natchitoches and had thrown a bridge across Red River, he three, was thus placed too far both from Natchitoches and from Camden to operate either against B[7 more...]