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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 73 (search)
of cavalry crossed it without accident, and suddenly surrounded the farm-house near by, and as quickly threw out pickets. The information received, however, was that the camp had been abandoned early that morning. The cavalry then recrossed the bayou, and we returned to the transport, arriving on board at ten o'clock. I gave orders for my command to have breakfast by five o'clock next morning, and the transport moved on up to Augusta. At five o'clock, therefore, yesterday morning, (April first,) we landed at Augusta, a small but pleasantly situated village, and immediately had it surrounded by pickets, and had citizens and colored men brought on board, that I might ascertain the number and whereabouts of McCrae's forces. I learned that for a few days past his forces had been concentrating, that two. or three days previously they had moved toward Jacksonport, that they had returned, and that the principal camp was at Antony's, said to be seven miles distant on the Jacksonport
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 89 (search)
bored with alacrity and vigor to suppress the conflagration, but owing to a high wind, and the combustible material of the buildings, it was found impossible to limit its progress, and a considerable portion of the town was destroyed. On the first of April, two or three days before the army moved from Alexandria to Natchitoches, an election of delegates to the Constitutional Convention was held at Alexandria, by request of the citizens of the Parish of Rapides. No officer or soldier interferedroe, watching the approaches from Natchez and Vicksburg. Green's cavalry, although ordered to move two weeks before this, did not leave the vicinity of Hempstead, Texas, till the fifteenth March, and did not reach General Taylor till between the first and fifth of April. The strength of the column which landed at Simmsport was, as it usually is, overestimated. General Walker, whose force, compared to it, was as four to ten, fell back up the Bayou De Glaize to a point near Fort De Russy, and