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o official reports of the recent battles on Red river have been received from Gen. Banks in addition to those published in the New Orleans Era. Unofficial letters frment severely on the lack of prudence and generalship said to be displayed by Gen Banks and Gen Stone, who was sent to him for Chief of Staff at his request. One letter says: Banks, with his fine army of 30,000, was totally deleted and routed by 12,000 under Dick Taylor It was done in this manner. Gen Banks sent out 6,00Gen Banks sent out 6,000 cavalry in the advance, with all their wagons, 200 in number, just behind them. This force of cavalry was supported by about 2,000 infantry, while the great mass esides driving our army back 15 miles to Pleasant Hill. The enemy attacked Banks on the second day at Pleasant Hill and was defeated, but our army has retreatedhese small, desultory, indecisive and unproductive operations. The losses of Gen Banks alone at Grand Ecore are now known to have been over five thousand. It was c