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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 89 (search)
On the twenty-first March, the enemy came out from Alexandria, and surprised the Second Louisiana cavalry, capturing most of that regiment, together with Edgar's four gun battery. This force constituted our rear guard. General Taylor then fell rapidly back to the vicinity of Natchitoches. After remaining ten or twelve days in Alexandria, Banks moved slowly up in pursuit. He met with no serious resistance till the battle of Mansfield. In Arkansas, General Price had his infantry near Spring Hill, fifteen miles from Washington, and sixty from Camden, while the cavalry under General Marmaduke held the line of the Ouachita, scouring the country in front to within twenty-five miles of Little Rock, where Steele had for some time been preparing for an advance. A brigade of cavalry, under General Cabell, was posted between Washington and Parachifta, in observation of the enemy, about five thousand strong, at Fort Smith, and guarding the approaches east of the Arkansas line, while Gener