November 17, 1863, The New York Herald
We lay before our readers today further particulars of the great Texas expedition, the main points of which, together with a full account of its success on the Rio Grande, we gave exclusively yesterday, from the pen of our special correspondent on the flagship McClellan. The account which we publish in another column today gives still more minutely all the incidents of this important expedition, from its starting to its successful and eventful close. The maps which accompany our correspondentstatement will be found most valuable in illustrating the course and objects of the expedition. They show the spot where our troops were landed on the 2d inst. at Brazos Island and the mouth of the Rio Grande, together with Brownsville and Point Isabel, and other points now invested with a peculiar interest.
The latest news from Charleston is by way of Richmond, to the 14th inst. On the 13th the firing from our batteries averaged about two shots a minute throughout the night, and continued with greater rapidity next day. The casualties were only two killed and one wounded.
A despatch from Atlanta, Ga., on the 13th, says that a fight between the rebel batteries and our forces before Chattanooga continued briskly up to that time, and that our troops have made a diversion from right to left, with a view probably to attack Lookout Mountain, or, it may be, to send troops to reinforce Gen. Burnside.
We give some further interesting particulars today concerning the great Canadian plot which has fizzled out so completely.