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laurels of victory. But ask them
now if their fond hopes have
been realized, and if they have
yet met hand to hand in bloody
encounter their countrys enemy
and with a tear trickling slowly down
their check. They will point with
emotion of sorrow to the man.
g green marches run from "El
thams Landing" to "Gettysburg" where
departed Texans lie. Whose lives
have been sacrificed upon a [strn
-ger?] soil in a noble cause.
The 20 companies had a diffi
-cult trip across the Calcasieu,
a swampy country in LA, from
Sabine River to Bayou Teche.
They left Texas in August 61 for
Virginia in detachments of 5