Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-05-11
Correspondence Of the New York World
BALTIMORE. May D, 1864.
EXPEDITION.

CONSEQUENCES or TUE DEFEAT OF THE RED RIvEE
EXPEDITION
have some highly important news to day il
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 ofthe World learn that
the deplorable result of the Red river expedition
has put in great jeopardy the feeble tenure by
which the Federal forces hold the entire western
slope Of the Mississippi Valley. Ii is not believed
bv the rebel leaders that the policy of concentra
ton can be wholly carried out by General Grant
But they do believe that he is sufficiently master
of the situation TO see tO il that no more troops
are sent To the Department of the Mississippi al
present. and they know full well that Banks has
been so crippled and cut up that he must con-
tnue bis retreat from Alexandria to Baton
Rouge, while they confident that General
Steele has either been compelled To surrender
al Camden or else has been driven back To Little
Rock
This state of things, and the evident deter
minaton of the Union Government to make the
extreme East the theater of their operations this
summer. has led the Confederate authorities to
resolve on 4, bold stroke in Texas. This is moth
ing less than the expulsion Of the few remaining
Union troops that yet in thar State. and the
seizure and permanent occupation Of the whole
Banks or hi successor to leave the southeastern
corner of louisiana this summer, and they are
satisfied that the rebel troops in Arkansas are
amply sufficient to take care OF General Steele
They intend To concentrate the whole of their
remaining force vest OF the Mississippi. together
with the regiments that have lately been
raised IN Texas. 1t some convenient point i'm the
interior Of that State. probably 1T Austin CITY or
San Antonio or perhaps as near the coast n Go
lad or Houston. aud To operate first again ct
whatever point i most strongly held nv the Fed
eral troops. Their operations will aiterward ex
tend over VIDE belt of country east of Texas
embracing fully the northern half Of Louisiana.
as far down as Alextndria. and the southern part
OF Arkansas. as tar north a. the mouth of the
Arkansas river. ana as far west as the Rio
Grande
CONFEDERATE TROOPS WEST or THE MIssIss lPPI.
When the expedition under General Banks
stared up the Red river. the Confederate troops
west of the Mississippi river consisted OF the iol
lowing bodies OF men all under Lieutenant Gen
eral Kirby Smith. viz:
Gen. Dick Ta,lor's division, nj Shreveport.
3.000: Gen. Prince Polignac's division, 1000:
Prices forces in Arkansas - 900: Marruder's
troops ~ Galveston, and az other points in Texas.
10000: " dkers brigade. 3 .0lh. Green's brigade.
1 OO0: Sidde's brigade 5000: the last three
port This constitutes a force OF 80 000 troops
These of course we're not all engaged IN the bat
ties on the Red river The forces which Banks
fought were those under Gems TAYLOR Prince Pa
lisnac. Walker. Green md Sidell, as shove; a
small detachment from Price. probably 3 900
and large detachmeu from Magruder. probably
000 ia al - 900 The forces which are non
or were recently engaged against Gen Steele.
AZ CT mden are understood io be the Whole Of
Prices ~ 900. and 1900 OF those recently en-
gagged against Banks The Confederate losses
in the recent engagements on the Ret river arc
understood in Redmond TO have been 2.0On
meu.
FoRrIFioArIoSs OF Hot sroN.
The proclamation OF General Mlgrujer. issued
on the 4th Of March. calling on the planter of
Texas Tor more negroes to work on the ioruhca-
tons OF Houston. had been responded 10 with
great alacrty. Over eight hundred negroes who
had been sent sent in rom the interior. we're busy
al work when NV informant le't. ana there was
every prospect that the Notifications would DE
speedily completed
NEGROES rAKES FROM rHL EAST TO rExAs.
But The people OF Texas have done more than
this. During the last wear the intux of negroes
from the States east of the Mississippi has been
very great After the Union armies had gained
virtual possession OF Kentucky ami Tennessee.
after Nashville had fallen into our hands; when
the army OF Rosecrsus advanced from Murfrees-
boro and >heloyville toward Chattanooga; above
ali, when our armies touched the northern coun-
ties OF Mississippi and Alabama. thousands OF
negroes we're taken by their master. from those
States 70 Texas. Many planters in those States
owned large estates Likewise In Texas-estates
which they had never worked to any great extent.
but which we're Capable Of being made very pro-
ductve. To these estates they took many
OF their negroes, both in order to save them from