. A cavalryman's reminiscences of the Civil War [electronic resource] . ockade Fight. The following- explains how the First Louisiana cameto he transferred from the Army of Tennessee to east-ern Louisiana: Meridian, Miss, Jan. n, 18( S. Cooper, \djutant and Inspector General: I am advised the enemy has made v landing at Mad-isonville on the lake shore in Louisiana; cavalry, ar-tillerv and infantrv ; in all ahout 2,000. The ohject issupposed to he to cut timber to build dry docks in NewOrleans as a means of constructing light gunboats forlake service. We have many men for service in thepa
. A cavalryman's reminiscences of the Civil War [electronic resource] . ockade Fight. The following- explains how the First Louisiana cameto he transferred from the Army of Tennessee to east-ern Louisiana: Meridian, Miss, Jan. n, 18( S. Cooper, \djutant and Inspector General: I am advised the enemy has made v landing at Mad-isonville on the lake shore in Louisiana; cavalry, ar-tillerv and infantrv ; in all ahout 2,000. The ohject issupposed to he to cut timber to build dry docks in NewOrleans as a means of constructing light gunboats forlake service. We have many men for service in theparishes of east Louisiana. Col. J. S Scott, of ScottsCavalry, whose resignation you informed me, had beenaccepted and whose regiment was raised in those par-ishes, if at the head of that regiment and in that fieldcould render me great service both in absorbing un-employed material and breaking up the operations ofthe enemy. His regiment is now a mere skeleton act-ing as escorts to Generals in the Army of Tennessee. Ifnot inconsistent with the views of the department I. GEORGE LORD, 1890. OF THE CIVIL WAR. 105 should be glad to have him recommissioned and hisregiment sent to report to me for duty. L. POLK,Lieutenant General. The following were the endorsements: 1. Adjutant General for statement on the case pre-sented bv the application for Col. Scott and regiment. JEFFERSON DAVIS. 2. Col. Scott was Colonel of First Louisiana Cav-alry and resigned Oct. 8. 1863. Most of the regimentwas captured just before the Battle of few not captured are serving in the Armv of Ten-nessee. S. COOPER. See Vol. XXXIV, Scries 1 part 2. From Dalton we were ordered to the SouthwestMississippi and Eastern Louisiana District and manvamusing incidents occurred on the long trip. Therewere a number of the boys who loved to get out ofcamp and sleep in comfortable homes. Among themwas young Heeny of Company D. One eveninghe rode up to a large two-story house and asked if hecould stay all nigh
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