Note 12 — Chapter XI · BRASHEAR CITY. On Active Service—Action of June Twenty-third—Captured—Paroled and Returned to Algiers.

The Confederates, under Major Hunter, started at six P.M. on the twenty-second, in forty-eight skiffs and flats, from the mouth of the Teche, up the Atchafalaya into Grand Lake, where oars were muffled, and then a pull of about eight hours landed them in rear of Brashear City.