History of the Nineteenth Army Corps by Richard B. Irwin

Author:Richard B. Irwin
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories, United States. Army. Corps, 19th
Published: 2008-02-12T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER XX. IN SUMMER QUARTERS.

Before Banks parted with Grover at Donaldsonville, he left orders for the troops to rest and go into "summer quarters" as soon as the pending operation should be decided. Accordingly, in the last days of July, Weitzel broke away from the discomforts of muddy, dusty, shadeless Donaldsonville, and marching down the bayou, once more took up his quarters near Napoleonville and Thibodeaux, and encamped his men at ease among the groves and orchards of the garden of La Fourche.

On the 16th of July the steamboat Imperial, from St. Louis on the 8th, rounded to at the levee at New Orleans in token that the great river was once more free. The next day she set out on her return trip.

On the 5th of August a despatch from Halleck, dated the 23d of

July, was received and published in orders:

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