Sabine Cross Roads, La. Here

during Banks’ Red River expedition of 1864 General Banks’ advance-guard of 8,000 Federals was defeated, as it marched toward Shreveport, by 20,000 Confederates led by Kirby Smith. Banks was totally unprepared for battle, his line of march extending over twenty miles. Suddenly, April 8, the Confederates emerged from the forest and bore down upon the disorganized line, and charged the Federals with great fury. Their line gave way almost immediately. The Confederates pursued them over three miles, until, at Pleasant Grove, Emory’s division was met drawn up to receive them. A brief skirmish followed, and then the Confederates desisted. Banks lost heavily. Sackett’s Harbor, N.Y. The first attack upon this place in the War of 1812 was made on July 29, 1812, by a fleet of five British ve els that bombarded the fortifications. They were repulsed with the lo of thirty-two men killed and wounded; the Americans lost not a man. A second and last attempt was made May 29, 1813. Six British ve els and forty bateaux with 1,000 troops aboard under command of Governor-General Sir George Prevost, attacked the militia and regulars under General Jacob Brown. The militia fled at the first fire; therefore, the officers in charge of the storehouses, thinking the Americans defeated, set fire to the storehouses, whereby half a million dollars’ worth of supplies were destroyed. General Brown, however, succeeded in rallying the militia, and the British, believing them to be reinforcements, turned and fied, leaving their dead and wounded behind.