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It was George Le Dell, the escaped prisoner, whom he had met during his memorable flight from Shreveport.
He was a tall, powerful-looking man, and Archie recognized in him the daring rider of the white horse the chief of the guerrillas. "I wonder what the old chap would say if he knew I was about," thought Archie "I, who gave him that wound. I'd be booked for Shreveport, certain."
There he learned that Smith, while waiting for a few of his men who had been ice-bound in the Ohio River, instead of getting off on the 1st as expected, had not left until the 11th. Smith did meet Forrest, but the result was decidedly in Forrest's favor. Sherman had written a letter to Banks, proposing a co-operative movement with him against Shreveport, subject to my approval.
"But, if our plans work," continued the colonel, "in less than a week from this time they will all be on the way to Shreveport." "May I ask, colonel," said the one who had not yet spoken, "how soon those boats will be ready?" "Major Jackson reports that they will be finished by to-morrow night, and it will take all of one day to run them down the creek to the river."
Three roads lead from this place to Shreveport, the Kingston, Middle, and Keachi. The distance by the first, the one nearest to the valley of Red River, is thirty-eight miles; by the second, forty; and by the third, forty-five. From Keachi, five and twenty miles from Mansfield and twenty from Shreveport, roads cross the Sabine into Texas.
Shreveport was reached in safety; and, after a short halt, the flotilla started again on their voyage up the river. They had proceeded but a short distance when a courier came galloping down the river's bank, waving a despatch, which he handed to Admiral Porter. "The despatch read, 'Gen.
Can we go into companionship of the Neroes and the Herods, and the Jim Fisks, and spend a certain number of years in that lost world, and then by that society be purified and lifted up? Is that the kind of society that reforms a man and prepares him for heaven? Would you go to Shreveport or Memphis, with the yellow fever there, to get your physical health restored?
That I have calculated, and so reported to General Grant, that this detachment of his forces in no event is to go beyond Shreveport, and that you will spare them the moment you can, trying to get them back to the Mississippi River in thirty days from the time they actually enter Red River.
By some means, the capture of the rebel lieutenant had become known, and a portion of his own regiment which had followed Frank from Shreveport, but which had given up the chase and returned had again started in pursuit.
His staff surpassed in numbers that of Von Moltke during the war with France; and, to supply the demands of bureaux and staff, constant details from the infantry were called for, to the great discontent of the officers in the field. Hydrocephalus at Shreveport produced atrophy elsewhere.
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