Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-12-01
The War Ne VS..

GEN. BANKS IN TEXAS.
Gen. Banks has opened recruiting office
in Brownsville, and on the first day over one
hundred Texans enlisted.
Arkansas, Texas, was captured by the
Union forces Nov. 18th, and Corpus Christi
on the 10Th.
Gen. Banks left Brazos for Point Isabel on
the 10Th inst. with fleet of nine vessels and
gunboat, and successfully landed through the
surf, with the 18Th and 18th Maine regiments,
oath Iowa, 8th Indiana, and Co. f, LIST Mis-
souri, artillery, with part of the 10th Iowa vol
unteers. The Monongahela opened her 200
pound PARROT on the enemy's battery, which
was planted behind the sand hills as to
cnmplnroly cover the channel and southern
point of St. Joseph Island. In the meantime
the 18th and 18th Maine, the two advance reg
iments, had succeeded III getting in the rear
of the works within two miles without being
discovered.
The armed transport Mcclellan, Captain
Gray, drawing less water than the Mononga-
hea worked up close on to the battery, soon
making 1t too hot for the Texans to hold.
They abandoned the battery, sought shelter
from the sand hills until their flag of truce
was discovered, when they were permitted to
surrender without terms. Their battery con-
sisted of three 24-pounders, and one 8-inch
sea howitzer. The force of the garrison con-
sisted of one company of heavy artillery and
two companies of drafted Texan militia, in all
about one hundred and fifty men. Since the
Goth of October the day of leaving New Or
leans, Gen. Banks has restored to the Union
the mouth of the Rio Grande, raised the stars
and stripes seventy miles up this river, cap
tured and established posts at Brazos Santa
90 Point Isabel, and secured to the Union
Corpus Christi and AranZaS Passes.
III. IL IL.
The expedition thus far has been perfectly
bloodless.
AFFAIRS AT KNOXVILLE.
Parson Brownlow has left Knoxville tenn
porarlly. He says Gen. Burnside has held
his position for ten days against large odds,
and that he is a moral and military hero.
Gen. Leisure, who left on the llth, says
Burnside's force numbers full 10000 men.
This includes, however, several new levies of
East Tennesseeans, who, although indvidu-
ally brave, are ignorant, badly drilled, and
generally unreliable when hard pressed.
Burnside has plenty of guns and ammunition,
and can hold Knoxville against four times his
numbers. Some of the best batteries in the
service, including one of 20 pound PARROTS,
are with him, while the formidable fortifca-
tons, stretching in semi-circle a couple of
miles from the town, and constructed by the
rebels against us, have been very materially
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