DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF: Reported Concentration of Rebels in Texas; Important Secret Movement of Gen. Banks’ Forces (1/11/1864)

New York Times archives – Times Machine ^ | 1/11/1864

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The steamship Columbia, Capt. BARTON, from New-Orleans, Dec. 3 via Havana, arrived at this port yesterday. She was detained at New-Orleans one day beyond her regular time of leaving, by order of Major-Gen. BANKS.

Information had reached New-Orleans, from three or four different directions, that all the rebel troops which have been operating in Western Louisiana, on the banks of the Mississippi, and in fact the whole force of the enemy, are gathering in Central Texas, and uniting to form one large army, to attack our new acquisitions on the coast of Texas. They will number at least 20,000. The most ample preparations have been made to meet this force as well as possible with the number of troops in the department. There will soon be news of great interest from Texas.

The Nineteenth army corps still remained at New-Iberia. Nearly every regiment has reenlisted as veterans. The agent of the Slate of Connecticut is at New-Iberia, paying every man from that State who reenlists $300. The Twelfth Connecticut has renlisted en masse.

We have received our usual files of New-Orleans journals and correspondence, but there is very little news.

New-Year's Day -- Intensely Cold Weather -- Gen. Banks' new Order -- Gov. Shepley's new Order -- A new Union Paper -- Hon. Michael Hahn, Editor and Proprietor of the True Delta -- Movement Among the Troops.

From Our Own Correspondent. NEW-ORLEANS, Saturday, Jan. 2, 1864. NEW-YEAR'S DAY.

New-Year's Day came upon us with a sharp, crisp, piercing cold that made it difficult to realize the fact that we were in the "sunny South," and had not been transported, overnight, among the frozen regions of the North. Fancy waking up in the morning -- in a place that, only in my last letter,

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Department of the Gulf: Reported Concentration of Rebels in Texas – 2
Colored Soldiers in Louisiana: The Troops at Port Hudson – 2-3
The War in Arkansas: Wholesale Desertion of Rebels – 3
Gen. Grant’s Department: Gen. Grant Visits Knoxville – 3-4
News from Washington: Special Dispatches to the N.Y. Times – 4
The War in Western Virginia: An Affair Yesterday With Mosby’s Guerrillas – 5
The Army of the Potomac: Dismissals of Officers – 5
Col. Underwood – 5
Arkansas and the Union: Interesting Speech of Gen. Gantt, Late of the Rebel Army – 5-6
Arkansas and the Union – 6
Editorial: “Onward to Richmond” – Senator Howe’s Proposition – 6
Editorial: Charleston – 6-7
Rebel Prospects – 7
Amusements – 7