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The order came in a flash. "Kilby Smith and all men here across creek to relief at once. I'll take canoe through bayou to Hill's and hurry reenforcements." The staff officer paused, his hand on the latch of the door. "But your escort, General. You're not going through that sewer in a canoe without an escort!" "I guess they won't look for a needle in that haystack," the General answered.
One division of five thousand men was made up out of Hurlbut's command, and placed under Brigadier-General T. Kilby Smith; and a similar division was made out of McPherson's and Hurlbut's troops, and placed under Brigadier-General Joseph A. Mower; the whole commanded by Brigadier-General A. J. Smith.
Indeed the total casualties in Kilby Smith's division above Grand Ecore were but 19, and Porter mentions only one. Chief among the Confederate killed was the brave, impetuous, and indomitable Green. About noon on the 13th, several of the boats being aground in mid-stream, they were attacked by Liddell, strongly posted on the high bluff known as Bouledeau Point.
It is a long way, but it is the only means by which we may be saved. The strongest and best swimmer must make the attempt." "I wish that I were a better swimmer than I am," said Burkett, "but I do not think I could do it." "I am but a poor one I know that I could not," added Kilby with a sigh. "I'll try, Mr Brand," cried Jerry; "I can float for ever so long, if I can't swim all the way."
Porter expected to be at Springfield Landing, 110 miles above Grand Ecore, on the 9th. On arriving there, Kilby Smith was to reconnoitre towards Springfield, and if practicable, to send a regiment to seize the bridge across the Bayou Pierre in the direction of Mansfield. On the 6th of April, as soon as the movement of the fleet was decided on, Banks resumed the march on Shreveport.
Ef you was to go back an' forth every day but Sabbath fur eighteen years, you'd want to ease it all you could, and let those thrash the spokes out o' their wheels that wanted to. North Kilby, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays; Sanscrit Pond, Tuesdays, Thu'sdays, an' Saturdays.
General Sherman's command was then entitled the Second Corps, Army of the Mississippi, and was comprised of the First Division, Blair's, Hovey's, and Thayer's brigades, commanded by Steele; and the Second Division, commanded by David Stuart, with Colonels Giles A. and Kilby Smith commanding brigades. Our fleet was convoyed by three ironclads and several other gunboats.
Jerry also instantly entered into the joke of the thing, and was delighted with the idea of being able to boast that he had ridden on a sea-elephant. "I shall be carried off into the depths of the ocean, and you, Mr Kilby, will have to be answerable to my disconsolate father," he sang out, half laughing and half crying. "Good-bye, Harry; a pleasant voyage to you round the world.
My sister's death came through you. There is no balance to that. What shall balance Alo's death? ... I leave you to think that over. It is worth thinking about. I shall keep your secret, too. Kilby does not know you. I doubt that he ever saw you, though, as I said, he followed you with the natives that night in Apia. He was to come to see me to-day.
Briley resumed, with an inward feeling that he never would get to North Kilby depot a single man. "But you see I hadn't nobody but myself to think of. I've got cousins, as you know, but nothin' nearer, and what I've laid up would soon be parted out; and well, I suppose some folks would think o' me if anything was to happen." Mrs.
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