Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1864-05-05
the great number that died on the march across
tho Techs from disease.

the great number that died on the march across
tho Teehs from disease.
QUIZ GAINS.
Oar gains thus far are the capture Of Fort
De Russy. Alsxssdria, Grand Ecore and Natchi-
toches, the opening of Red river, the capture
By the gunboats of three thousand bales of
prize cotton, one-bslf Of which goes to the
Government, and the bringing of the other
Considerable quantities Of cotton to our mar
ksts. Besides this, We have captured at Fort
De RHssy, Hendsrson's hill, Pleasant Hill,
Mansfield and elsewhere, two thousand three
hundred pTisoneE, ineluiing three leatenaut-
eolonsls, six majors, and thirty lne effesrS ut
Pleasant Hill, twenty five pieces Of artillery,
any quantity of email arms there and at other
points. four hundred bushels of mshl, thirty
barrels Of beef, and depot conmissAriRt st
Pleasant Hill.
The material for at least two full colored re2i-
men's has thus besr garnered i'm, sed the
rebels have beer deprived OF the ssFyicS Of i've
thousand &bls-bodied negroes, male and female,
who hsve ah ndoned sheir happy homes and
cast iheir fortunes wish ths Yankees.
When Shreveport is taken and occupied, and
the rebel State government is dKiysR therefrom
to leek sncthsr temporary resting placs the chief
object Of the present campaign viii be accom-
plished.
. REBEL CASUALTIES.
The robel General Seurry, commanding Nc
Cullough's cid Texas brigade, was slightly
wourdedi Msjor Muller, 18th Texas rcbel in-
fsntry, was killed.
Lleutsnans- Colonel Gregg, one Of the csptur
cd rsbsls, reports that Kirby Smith commanded
The IebSl forces iD person, Numbering twenty
thousand the fras day aud twenty I've thousand
the sseOEd.
FUTURE MOVEMENTS.
General Bsnks havios fallen back to GIsnd
EceEo, thirty-hse miles from Pissss1t Hill, e.
ty FIVE ;niies from Esasfsld, and pnosy-6vs
miss from Shreveport, will advance again IS
soon as reinforced saj adequate supplies aIa re
esiVed TIE leas Of artillery is a trivial natter,
as nearly he wbols fghking, sSing 20 tbe nA;u,o
Of the tesTiiy wooded eonnlry, must bs dJne
by infantry.
Admiral PoE;e.'s Hsst viii co-opcTsts ss far Is
possiSie. The extsat Of its ca-oPsss:iou do
psbds ca she depth Of wafer in R3d river.
Oshsr battles nust coon follow, aud gloriCas
Victories will be w3u over the sfaEt. Mississippi
rsbels.
Tbs ensn1y appears to have moved lis whole
forces rear here to crush out the Union army.
According 70 TIE reports Of prisoners, Kirby
SniGh, Diek Taylor, Greene, Nssrudsr and
Pfice sresli in the fsld against Gan. Banks aud
bis commanders
In th6coptinued prosecution Of the campaign
there are difficulties tc encc inter which Gc1.
Banks and his army hope to overcome. The
Red river, nSvigAbls usually oFeT the falls ebaYo
AlexandTia, is lower GoW than ever before Gt
this season Of tie year, snd it is possible tha!
the ssfety Of tho gunboess AID monitors above
AlexaAjria will render the abandonment Of
military occupation imprseiicsble.
Light GrsEght Isnsp3rss can pass tie fails
for some weeks yet, and the army cannot be cut
Of from its supplies. Sill tha supplies viii DO.
corns forward 50 rapidly ss Il the waters Of the
Rad river wee Of ibs ordinary depth at this
time Of tho year. Should the river fail to he
nasigsble, and an advance, therefore, be rem
dsred impFsetieAbls, ths certainty Of holding
and occupying Alexandra and Natehitoches re-
mains, and so far the forward movement is
success.
Between Pleasant Hill and MsusGeld, dis
tancs of twenty miles, there is . dehciency Of
water, without which an army cannot be sub
sisted or marched, il is, therefore, quito desiI1-
bic that the movement from oae to Ehs other OF
these points shall be rapid.
The latest RdTiees from Gen. Ssssle were that
he was within either sixty miles, or one days
march, Of Shreveport, with fifteen thousand
men.
Admiral Porter, with two monitors ard his
Hsg ship, went mp the river from Grand EcOFe,
q week since, it is presumed to opsrste sgsinst
the reoel-ssat OF government n LOUISIANA.
THE VERY LATEST.
GRAND ECORE, ( vii IS, 1664-Abous twen-
ty-6Ve miles above e. on the left bank of the
Red river, the rebt opened on the transports
Clara BsIl and Rob Roy, and fred twelve shots
into them. A force Of thousand mounted in
fantry; ssid to be part Of the rebel Gen. Green's
command, came down in frost Of the battery
and poured voilevs Of muskesry into the;steAm-
eIs. which were ing the worst of ii, when a
small gunboat olpglsanslY came up, sheled
and silsneed the battery, and compelled the
rebels to fall bsck.
General a. J. Smiths 10Th corps subsequent
ly arrived near the scene of scti0n, havisg
crossed ovs. from Grand EcoTs, marched up
the night hsak of the river, AID sgain eTc5aed
ever 20 push and punish the enemy. They
captured two guns and seventeen wounded
prisoners, uAo sssert positively that General
Green was killed by she'll from the Rob Roy.
The rebels left one bundled and siXty-four of
their dead on the 6eld, slaughtered by the ter
rife FIRE Of our gunboats and transports, in their
preeipits;e retreat. Their slightly wounded
VAS taken off.
By the death of Gs8. Gtsan the enemy have
losA saF.s cf THAR uaoak ivrah hia SftonyE