. A cavalryman's reminiscences of the Civil War [electronic resource] . ight here I am reminded of anincident connected with my visit to their hospitablehome. I related one of the marvelous acts of heroismdisplayed by one of the First Louisiana on the field ofbattle, exactly as told in the preceding pages. seemed interested, but I thought I could detecta sign of incredulity creeping upon him and I wonderedif he was putting me down as a Munchausen; sometime after this his mother said, Son, if you will lookin my desk, possibly you may find something in your fa-thers old letters that wou
. A cavalryman's reminiscences of the Civil War [electronic resource] . ight here I am reminded of anincident connected with my visit to their hospitablehome. I related one of the marvelous acts of heroismdisplayed by one of the First Louisiana on the field ofbattle, exactly as told in the preceding pages. seemed interested, but I thought I could detecta sign of incredulity creeping upon him and I wonderedif he was putting me down as a Munchausen; sometime after this his mother said, Son, if you will lookin my desk, possibly you may find something in your fa-thers old letters that would be of interest. Afterglancing over one or two, he suddenly exclaimed:Well, listen to this! and in his fathers own writinghe read the story referred to above, and now he knowsit was true. Lieut. Slacks diary was succinct andunique. Somewhat on this style: January nth, 1862,fatal to Company B. March 9, Capt. Scotts skirmishnear Franklin. March 19, silk spreads and mahoganybedstead, next night on a board in a cabin. Founda very inhospitable hospitable man, etc., Lieut. ERI BROOKS and sons F. M. and O. 1861 OF THE CIVIL WAR. 141 Roll of Company B.(East Baton Rouge Parish.) J. M. Taylor, Captain, promoted to Major, resignedin 1864; Ed Heriart, First Lieutenant, resigned ; N. \YPope, Second Lieutenant, promoted to Captaincy; Fort, Third Lieutenant, resigned; Eri Brooks, pro-moted to First Lieutenant; \Y S. Booth promoted toSecond Lieutenant; Samuel Hall, promoted to ThirdLieutenant and resigned; D. P Cain first Sergeant;C M. Towles, second Sergeant; Robt. Howie, thirdSergeant; Geo. G. Xichol, fourth Sergeant; JosephHunstock, first corporal; J. E. Powers, second corporalW P Jackson, third corporal. Privates—M. Berlin, W E. Brown, John Burris, , F. M. Brooks, O. D. Brooks, F. Bradford,Theodore Benton, B. F. Chapman, M. W Carpenter,B. Christmas, R. T Devall, Victor Deville, JosephDrehr, James Edwards, YVm. Gerholt, George Green,F C. Godbold, C A. Goodrich.
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