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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)
Texas, whether by pursuing it or pushing it back as far as the city of New Orleans. The plan of reaching Texas by land had therefore to be perforce abandoned. For two months Banks had been seeking in vain some means of executing the orders of his government. Happily, during that time he had received, at New Orleans, the seaworthy vessels owing to the want of which he had been obliged to direct his first attack against Sabine Pass. He could henceforth, without much danger, cross the Gulf of Mexico to disembark a corps of troops at the mouth of the Rio Grande. We have shown how important it was for the Federals to occupy this point. The naval expedition was at once decided upon. But Banks, in order to divert the attention of the enemy, wished to appear as if persisting in his first project. The old division of Herron (First of the Thirteenth corps), commanded by General Dana, was selected to form the landing-corps, and left the vicinity of Morganzia to return to New Orleans.
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)
as the shore where the waters of the Alabama disappear into the Gulf of Mexico. He even endeavored to spread it himself. In short, to confirters of the Missouri, and on the south by the low shores of the Gulf of Mexico. These two rivers, the Arkansas and the Red River, are very si may perhaps be seen the vestiges of the coast formation of the Gulf of Mexico at a remote geological period, extends from the north-west to tin of the Red River from the streams which flow directly to the Gulf of Mexico—the Sabine, Calcasieu, and others of less importance. The partzed soon drew in the train of the armies of the West and of the Gulf of Mexico a swarm of speculators, who were their scourge wherever the hon, Northern Florida, connect the Atlantic coast with that of the Gulf of Mexico. Gillmore counted on following the first far enough to drive t one on the watershed of the Atlantic, the other on that of the Gulf of Mexico, and, as always happens when the dividing-line is not accentuat