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CHAPTER XXX.

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A TRAIN OF CONFEDERATE SUCCESSES IN THE BEGINNING OF 1864.-THE BATTLE OF OCEAN POND.-GEN. SEYMOUR'S EXPEDITION INTO FLORIDA.-ITS DEFEAT AND COMPLETE DISASTER. SHERMAN'S EXPEDITION IN THE SOUTHWEST.-HIS FIRST EXPERIMENT OF MOVABLE COLUMN."-HIS DESIGNS UPON MOBILE AND THE CONFEDERATE LINES IN NORTH GEORGIA. THE CO-OPERATING COLUMN OF CAVALRY.-GEN. POLK EVACUATES MERIDIAN, AND FALLS BACK TO DEMOPOLIS.-FORREST DEFEATS THE FEDERAL CAVALRY.-DISASTROUS AND DISGRACEFUL CONCLUSION OF SHERMAN'S ADVENTURE. THE RED RIVER EXPEDITION. GEN. BANKS' DESIGNS UPON TEXAS. THE CONFEDERATE COMMANDS IN THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI.-THE FEDERAL ADVANCE UP RED RIVER. THE CONFEDERATES FALL BACK TOWARDS SHREVEPORT.-BATTLE OF MANSFIELD.-HOW THE ACTION WAS BROUGHT ON.-ROUT OF THE ENEMY.-SINGULAR SCENES ON THE PURSUIT.-BATTLE OF PLEASANT HILL, AN UNFORTUNATE MISTAKE OF ORDERS.-CHURCHILL'S CORPS PANIC-STRICKEN.— GEN. WALKER HOLDS THE FIELD.-THE ENEMY CONTINUES HIS RETREAT TO ALEXANDRIA.— HIS MARCH A CAREER OF UNPARALLELED COWARDICE AND CRIME.-LARGE SPOILS OF THE CONFEDERATES. THE EXTENT OF BANKS' DISASTER.—TERMINATION OF HIS VISION OF EMPIRE WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI.-FORREST'S EXPEDITION UP THE MISSISSIPPI.-CAPTURE OF FORT PILLOW.-HOKE'S OPERATIONS ON THE NORTH CAROLINA COAST.-COMPARATIVE UNIMPORTANCE OF THESE CONFEDERATE SUCCESSES.-THE RAID OF ULRIC DAHLGREN. THE PARTS OF CUSTER AND KILPATRICK.-FAILURE AND LUDICROUS COWARDICE OF THE SEVERAL EXPEDITIONS.-DAHLGREN'S ATROCIOUS DESIGNS. HE RETREATS, AND IS CHASED BY POLLARD.-MANNER OF HIS DEATH.-DISCOVERY OF THE DAHLGREN PAPERS." SENSATION IN RICHMOND.-PRESIDENT DAVIS' MELODRAMA.-STATEMENT OF EDWARD W. HALBACH IN RELATION TO THE "DAHLGREN PAPERS."-THE PAPERS FIRST FOUND BY THE SCHOOLBOY LITTLEPAGE.-HOW TRANSMITTED TO RICHMOND. THE THEORY OF FORGERY.-ITS UTTER ABSURDITY.

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ALTHOUGH the Northern public was gratified in contemplating the sum of Federal victories in the year 1863, it had yet to see in the early months of 1864 a remarkable train of Confederate successes, which, in the aggregate, did much to re-animate the Confederates, and to subdue expectation at Washington. These successes were principally a decisive victory in Florida; the defeat of Sherman's expedition in the Southwest; and a triumphant issue in the most important campaign that had yet taken place west of the Mississippi River.

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