University of Texas at San Antonio Civil War Diaries

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