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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 176 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 10 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. 9 1 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 6 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments. 5 1 Browse Search
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War 5 5 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 4 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) 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 IV:—the war in the South-West. (search)
n. Polignac, overtaking them, boldly placed himself with Major across their path in a vast undulating plain called the Prairie d'avoyelles, which extends between Mansura and Marksville, while Wharton with two brigades of cavalry harassed their rearguard, made up, as it was always at critical moments, of Smith's corps. Banks folon of Marksville to resume the road followed by Smith two months before. On the morning of the 14th the Nineteenth corps, which formed the advance-guard, found Mansura occupied by a detachment of the enemy, and captured it after quite a brisk engagement, while Smith, delayed by the wagon-train, was obliged to form into line to r and the train. Wharton, who had joined Polignac with his cavalry and horse-artillery, wished to hoodwink the Union general as long as possible. On the east of Mansura, on the road which strikes the ford of Bayou Glaise, the prairie is bounded by woods which crown quite a high hill visible from a great distance. Wharton posted