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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)
only a portion of his forces by sea, whilst the rest, moving up Bayou Teche and passing through Vermilionville, would make its way into Texang able to proceed by another route, Banks had decided to ascend Bayou Teche with all his available forces as far as Vermilionville, and to eranklin, having reached beyond New Iberia, had left the banks of Bayou Teche at the point where it ceases to be navigable at this season, andn the Mississippi to observe the country through which the upper Atchafalaya flows, had met with a severe check: General Green, whom it was ie forces of Green, whom he had called back from the banks of the Atchafalaya, he was following from Opelousas the tracks of the Federals, conng his absence General Franklin, having remained on the banks of Bayou Teche, in the vicinity of New Iberia, had, on November 20th, surprisedhe Sixth Texas, and Green had reappeared on the left bank of the Atchafalaya. But, on the whole, no serious engagement had taken place. Ban
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)
ntage of the opportunity to conquer Upper Louisiana. We have seen with what perseverance he has fought against Banks—who this time was rightly inspired—to force his view upon him. After the defeat at Sabine Pass he has compelled him to ascend Bayou Teche, and at the moment when the latter was delayed by insurmountable difficulties on the Houston road, Halleck has pushed Steele forward beyond Arkadelphia, luring him with the vain hope that he would meet Banks on the bank of the Red River. He hg General Franklin on the Teche, Taylor imagined that the latter had embarked on the Mississippi, and that all of Banks' army, united with the forces arrived from Vicksburg, whose departure he was aware of, was disembarking on the banks of the Atchafalaya. Smith had really not landed more than five or six thousand men; he could not have landed nine thousand. Walker, contending with the Federals for the crossing of Bayou Glaise, a muddy channel to which the alternate currents had given a gre