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The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1864., [Electronic resource], From Gen. Bank's Department. (search)
ep, &c., and seven hundred bales of cotton, took fire just as she arrived at Plaquemine, and was a total loss. Banks had stripped the whole section of country of troops for his Red river expedition. The garrison left were mostly negro troops. Trade is constantly going on between the Yankees and Confederates, the latter generally bribing the Yankee pickets for the privilege. Printed oaths can be bought for a trifle. One woman is trading for cotton, and has been as far up as Brookhaven, selling a negro to pay for the cotton, whose husband is a Yankee spy and detective in New Orleans. The steamers are full of detectives, as many as eleven being on the boat our friend was on.--New Orleans is full of them — in fact, you can trust no one, as many pass themselves as Confederates. Take it altogether the news is encouraging. People are true to our cause and hopeful, while the Federals are sick of the war. The late defeat of Banks had caused a deep feeling of despondency.