[453] So styled in Cochrane's Report, which also speaks of it as Bayou Catalan. The name does not appear on the map of Major Latour, chief of engineers to Jackson, who in his report calls the whole bayou Bienvenu.
[454] Gleig, Narrative of the Campaign of Washington, Baltimore, and New Orleans, pp. 282-288.
[455] Gleig, pp. 308-309.
[456] Gleig's Narrative, p. 321. Cochrane's Report, Naval Chronicle, vol. xxxiii. p. 341. Report of Major C.R. Forrest, British Assistant Quarter-master-General, War Office Records.
[457] Thornton's Report. James' Military Occurrences of the War of 1812, vol. ii., p. 547.
[458] James' Military Occurrences, vol. ii. p. 547.
[459] Niles' Register, vols. vii. and viii., gives a large number of the official reports, as well British as American, concerning the New Orleans Expedition. So also does James in his "Military Occurrences" and "Naval Occurrences" of the War of 1812. Regarded in outline, as is attempted in the text, the operations are of a simple character, presenting no difficulties.
[460] Captains' Letters. Navy Department MSS.
[461] Ibid., Sept. 26, 1814.
[462] Decatur to Navy Department, April 9, 1814. Captains' Letters.