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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 7: the siege of Charleston to the close of 1863.--operations in Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas. (search)
ugust 17, 1863. when Davidson pushed forward, on its western side, on a reconnoissance toward Brownsville, the capital of Prairie County, then held by Marmaduke. Meanwhile Steele sent his extra suppplace in all that region. When Davidson, with a strong vanguard of skirmishers, approached Brownsville, driving Confederate skirmishers before him, Marmaduke evacuated the place August 26, 1863. ined by True's brigade, sent from Memphis, and then concentrated his whole available force at Brownsville. A reconnoissance by Davidson showed that great difficulties lay in the way of a direct marcebarked at Brazos Santiago, drove a small cavalry force stationed there, and followed them to Brownsville, thirty miles up the river, which Banks's advance entered on the 6th. November. Point Isabels taken possession of on the 8th; and as soon as possible Banks, who made his Headquarters at Brownsville, sent as many troops as he could spare, up the coast, to seize and occupy the water passes be
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Index. (search)
the Presidency, 1.28; flight of from Kentucky, 2.77; treachery of, 1.374. Bridgeport, Hooker crosses the Tennessee at, 3.151. Bridges, railway, destruction of, in Maryland, 1.417. bright, John, champion of the Republic in England, 2.159. Bristow Station, battle of, 3.105. Brown, Col. H., takes command at Fort Pickens, 1.369. Brownlow, Rev. W. G., imprisoned at Knoxville, 2.38; permitted to leave the Confederacy, 2.39; house of visited by the author, in 1866, 3.284. Brownsville, Texas, capture of by Gen. Banks, 3.223. Bruinburg, Grant crosses the Mississippi at, 2.603. Buchanan, Commodore, McKean, death of, at the battle of the Bayou Teche, 2.597. Buchanan, President, James, conspirators in the cabinet of, 1.43; his message of Dec. 30, 1860, 1.64; his indecision, 1. 73, 283; distrusted by the Southern conspirators, 1.143; painful position of, 1.146; changes in his cabinet, 1.146; his message of Jan. 8, 1861, 1.218; disruption of his cabinet, 2.527. Buckn