Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-05-10
THE SOUTHWESTERN CAMPAIGN.
How the Rebels Expect to Gain
Texas, and what they Intend
to do with IL.
EFFECT OF THE RED RIVER
BATTLES.
Commerce Between the Southern States and
Mexico.
NAPOLEON AND THE REBEL
PLANS.
How General nagruder Raised 10000
Volunteers.
How General Magruder er Raised 10000
Volunteers.
Correspondence of the World.l
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Correspondence Of the World.l
BALTIMORE, May 5.
CONSEQUENCES OF THE DEFEAT OF THE
RED RIVER EXPEDITION.
have some highly important news to-
day in regard to the rebel designs in Texas,
and the means which the rebels have at
their disposal for carrying those designs
into execution. 1t will not surprise the
readers of the World to learn that the de-
plOrable result of the Red river expedition
has putin great jeopardy the feeble tenure
by which the Federal forces hold the entire
western slope of the Mississippi valley. 1t
is not believed by the rebel leaders that the
policy of concentration can be fully car
ried out by Gen. Grant. But they do be-
lieve that he is sufficiently master of the
situation to see to it that no more troops
are sent to the Department of the Missis-
sippi at present, and they know full well
that Banks has been so crippled and cut up
that he must continue his retreat from AL
exandria to Baton Rouge, while they are
confident that Gen. Steele has either been
compelled to surrender at Camden or else
has been driven back to Little Rock. This
state of things, and the evident determina-
tion of the Union government to make the
extreme East the theater of their opera
tions this summer, has led the confederate
authorities to resolve on bold stroke in
Texas. This is nothing less than the eX-
pulson of the few remaining Union troops
that are yet in that State, and the seizure
and permanent occupation of the whole
State. They believe it will be impossible
for General Banks or his successor to
leave the southeastern corner of Louis
lana this summer, and they are satisfied
Z, Aylra
sufficient to take care of General Steele
They intend to concentrate the whole of
their remaining force west of the Missis-
sippi, together with the new regiments that
have recently been raised in Texas at some
convenient point in the interior of that
State, probably at Austin City or San An
tonic, or perhaps as near the coast as Goliad
or Houston, and to operate first against
whatever point is most strongly held by
the Union troops. Their operations will
afterward extend over wide belt of coun-
try east of Texas, embracing fully the
northern half of Louisiana, as far down as
Alexandria, and the southern part of Ar
kansas, as far north as the mouth of the
Arkansas river, and as far west as the Rio
Grande.
TROOPS WEST OF THE MIssIs-
sIPPI.
When the expedition under Gen. Banks |
started ND the Red river, the confederate
troops west of the Mississippi river con-
sisted of the following bodies of men, all
under rLieutenant-General Kirby Smith, viz |
Major General Dick Taylor's Division at |
1900; Major General Prince
Polignac's division, 1000; Major General |
Prices forces in Arkansas, $4,000; Major |
General Magruder's troops at Galveston, |
IoE okl,o os,,|, 10 n
al Walkers brigade, 5000; General Green's |
brigade, 1000; General Siddelps brigade,
1900; the last three brigades being on the |
Red river below Shreveport. This consti- |
tutes force of $4,000 troops. These of
course were not all engaged in the battle on
the Red river. The forces which General |
Banks found opposed to him were those
under General Taylor, Prince Polignac,
General Walker, General Green and General
oiddell, as above; small detachment
rom General Price, probably 1900 men,
md large detachment from General Mag
-uder, probably 5000 men, in all 25000.-
The forces which are now or were recently
engaged against Gen. Steele, at Camden,
ire understood to be the whole of General
Prices $4,000 and $4,000 Of those recently
engaged against General Banks. The con-
ederate losses in the recent engagements on
uC nCu IlNCI ltuuCISUOOu db |
% have been 1000 men.
FoRTIFIcATIoNs OF HOUSTON.
The proclamation of General Magruder,
ssued on the 4th of March, calling on the
planters of Texas for more negroes to work
IN the Notifications of Houston, had been
responded to with great alacrity. Over 800
legroes, who had been sent in from the in
erior, were busy at work when my infor-
nant left, and there was every prospect
hat the Notifications would be speedily
completed. -.-.
NEGROES TAKEN FROM THE EAST TO TEXAS.
But the people of Texas have done more
han this. During the last year the influx
f negroes from the States east of the Mis-
issippi has been very great. After the
Union armies had gained virtual possession
I Kentucky and Tennessee. after Nash
lille had fallen into our hands; when the
rmy Of Rosecrans advanced from Murfrees-
oro and Shelbyville toward Chattanooga;