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the enemy which he met, and, not having been able to overtake McRae, he returned on the 24th to Little Rock. Finally, elsewhere the banks of the Arkansas above Fort Smith were incessantly drenched with blood that was shed by small bands that surprised isolated posts, captured detachments, pillaged the farms of inhabitants suspected of sympathy with the Union, and, not giving any quarter, spread terror everywhere. On the 4th of April one of these bands attacked in vain the little post of Roseville. It was driven off with loss, but it wreaked its vengeance in new massacres. We must now return to Alexandria, where we left Banks and Taylor facing each other, whilst Kirby Smith after the battle of Jenkins' Ferry finally decided to bring back to this point the army which he had so mal apropos dragged to the very centre of Arkansas. The Union fleet, reunited on the 28th of April above the rapids of Alexandria, consisted of a monitor, eight ironclads, and a large gunboat. It had, we