. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . quittedthe Red River, and the campaign ended with the occupation of all the coun-try we had held at its beginning, as well as of the lower Teche. The operations of Taylor on Red River and Marmaduke on the Mississippiprevented A. J. Smith from obeying Shermans order to return to Vicks-burg in time for the Atlanta campaign. \ Through the courtesy of the editors of this work, I have carefully reada statement in which are grouped in detail the covert insinuations, the gos-sip of camps
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . quittedthe Red River, and the campaign ended with the occupation of all the coun-try we had held at its beginning, as well as of the lower Teche. The operations of Taylor on Red River and Marmaduke on the Mississippiprevented A. J. Smith from obeying Shermans order to return to Vicks-burg in time for the Atlanta campaign. \ Through the courtesy of the editors of this work, I have carefully reada statement in which are grouped in detail the covert insinuations, the gos-sip of camps and capitals, and the misstatements of well-known facts that goto make up the old story of many versions of an arrangement at Washing-ton whereby Kirby Smiths army was to recede before the army of GeneralBanks, falling back through the State of Texas, and finally to disband. Inanticipation of this, the story continues, Confederate cotton to an amount 4. A. J. Smith did not rejoin Sherman, but, after Sherman had set out for Savannah, he joined Thomasin time to take part in the battle of Nashville.— BRIGADIER-GENERAL C. .1. POLIGNAC, C. S. A PHOTOGRAPH. 374 RESUME OF MILITARY OPERATIONS named, believed to be 25,000 bales, was to be gathered at points convenientfor transportation and taken by three commissioners, residents of NewOrleans, who would accompany the expedition under Banks, and sold bythem; the proceeds to be divided like naval prize money, and to go to make afund for the benefit of such Confederate officers and men as might expatriatethemselves in Brazil or some other country. General Banks was instructedto carry out this arrangement. General Dick Taylor was assigned to thecommand of the Army of the West Mississippi after this arrangement wasentered into and before its execution, was not a party to it, and purposelyprevented its being carried out by bringing on an engagement at the navy commenced taking the cotton, claiming it as pri
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