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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 19 9 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) 8 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 8 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 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. 6 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 4 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 4 0 Browse Search
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 4 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 2, 1864., [Electronic resource] 2 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)
he right bank of the river the village, officially Mexican, but in reality American, of Bagdad., On the north of Corpus Christi pass are the passes of Aransas and Cavallo, which give access to the two deep and navigable lagoons of Aransas and Matagorda. The latter is truly an inland sea, on the margin of which are the commercial m, gives him a force of more than three thousand men, with which he will continue to take possession of the important points on the coast. The Corpus Christi and Cavallo passes are about sixty-two miles apart. The banks which extend between them form the two islands of St. Joseph and Matagorda, which are separated by a channel imlled Cedar Bayou. At the northern end of Matagorda Island, near the small port of Saluria, is an extensive work with blinded screen—Fort Esperanza—commanding the Cavallo pass. It is armed with powerful artillery and defended by seven or eight hundred men. Its capture would completely close the ports of Indianola and Matagorda an