. Loslösung der republik : die dritte Periode des Krieges der Rebellion, im Jahr 1864 . es. Alle durch die Südstaaten gab es Stapel Baumwolle gesammelt durch die Steuer-col-Lektoren, und beschriftet C. S. A. solche Baumwolle, wenn gefangen war bekannt ROTEN FLUSS EXPEDITION. 49 wie die Watte und die Offiziere der Marine nach den Gesetzen waren an ihr teilhaben, was sie natürlich sehr wachsam machte. Es war eine einfache Angelegenheit für einen Spekulanten, um Wort zu einem Offizier, wo ecotton gefunden werden konnte, die beschlagnahmt und nach Kairo geschickt werden würde; aber wenn die Angelegenheit vor dem Richter kam, war es genauso einfach

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. Redeeming the republic : the third period of the war of the rebellion, in the year 1864 . es. All throughthe Southern States there were piles of cotton gathered by the tax col-lectors, and labelled C. S. A. Such cotton when captured was known RED RIVER EXPEDITION. 49 as prize cotton, and the officers of the navy, under the laws, were entitledto a share in it, which naturally made them very vigilant. It was an easy matter for a speculator to get word to an officer wherecotton might be found, which would be seized and sent to Cairo; butwhen the matter came before the judge it was just as easy for the specu-lator to appear and testify that it was his own property, and that theConfederate Government never owned it. No one will ever know thetrue history of the cotton business; but this much may be said, that theadministration of affairs in the Department west of the Mississippi wasvery loose. There was a great deal of trading between the people on bothsides, and it is possible that some of the Union officers improved the op-portunity to make money in ways not wholly legitimate.. llfx MAP OF THE RED EIVEK EXPEDITION. The troops under General Banks were in lower Louisiana. GeneralFranklin, who had been under McClellan and Burnside in the Army of thePotomac, was in immediate command, with orders to march from Ope-lousas northward to Alexandria, which was to be the rendezvous. Usual-ly in winter the Red River has a flood pouring into the Mississippi, butnow it was very low; there had been no great rains; the snow had not 50 REDEEMING THE EEPUBLIC. melted on the far-away mountains. Not till there was a rise could thelarge gunboats go beyond Grand Ecore, just above Alexandria; norcould the river steamers transporting the supplies go beyond that point.There were ten gunboats and more than thirty river steamers. The MarineBrigade, under General Ellet, numbering three thousand, was needed atMemphis, and returned. It had no wagons, and General Banks had noneto give it. General B

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