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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the war in the South-West. (search)
plan which would have produced the most certain results in assuring his junction with Banks near Alexandria, and which consisted in descending the Washita. After having proposed to gain the banks of the upper Red River in Arkansas, going by way of Washington in order to descend the river, and to approach Shreveport from the other side, he wound up by joining in the opinion which Sherman, with his usual sagacity, had given him at the very start, and had decided to march by way of Camden and Overton. The possession of the first of these two lines assured him easy communications with Pine Bluff. In going by way of the second he could assist Banks before Shreveport without having to traverse the marshy flats intersected by the lakes and bayous into which Red River spreads out above this city. But, informed of the fortification of Camden, he resolved, instead of marching directly on this place, to reduce it by drawing away Price's forces on the other side; he wished, moreover, to avoid