. A cavalryman's reminiscences of the Civil War [electronic resource] . t. Hilly Douglas! Do I remember him? \s vividly asam one with whom I came in contact during the war!And his mother! I have lived to bless her all my life.\fter a hard trip from down about Tort Hudson, Billsaid, Lets go to Jackson and take dinner withmother Soldier like, always ready for something toeat. I went, and what a good dinner and clean up wehad! The motherly words of that grand woman burnin gratitude to that mother of thine, Douglas, even untilnow. I never can forget her touch when she put herhand >>n my boyi
. A cavalryman's reminiscences of the Civil War [electronic resource] . t. Hilly Douglas! Do I remember him? \s vividly asam one with whom I came in contact during the war!And his mother! I have lived to bless her all my life.\fter a hard trip from down about Tort Hudson, Billsaid, Lets go to Jackson and take dinner withmother Soldier like, always ready for something toeat. I went, and what a good dinner and clean up wehad! The motherly words of that grand woman burnin gratitude to that mother of thine, Douglas, even untilnow. I never can forget her touch when she put herhand >>n my boyish head and with tears admonished meto remember my own mother and prove a worthy son. \t our reunion at Louisville some of us must bethere. Our Kentucky end, of course, will be there, butwe want to see our Louisiana comrades. I would liketo shake with Will Douglas, Pete Caufield, Billyand Jas. Sneed, Iverson Batchelor, Melancon Richard,yourself. Capt. Leake, Capt. McKowen, Major Hamil-ton and a host of others that pass in rapid transit beforemv mental ALEX. PORTER MORSE. 1G 198 a cavalrymans reminiscences \\ ell! my comrade, if you can gather anything of in-terest from what 1 have written i shall rejoice at hav-ing aided you. A spell of sickness from which I amjust recovering has delayed this writing some, and 11there is anything I can do yet to hasten the work tocompletion I am yours to comrade, H. Stedman,Company I, First Louisiana Cavalry. Referring to the above we take this method of thank-ing the comrade for the information furnished andother valuable assistance rendered. Howard Stedmanis proprietor of The Elkhorn Woolen Mills at Forksof Elkhorn, and is one of the most highly respectedcitizens of that section. On an easel in his parlor he has a large picture of thegroup, consisting of Lol. Scott. Col. ( )gden. Col. Ham-ilton, Capt. McKowen and Lieut. Leake, from a photo-graph taken at Mobile in 1S05. Thanks are due himfor a half tone of the ab
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