The camp is full of turkeys, and we make ours fight
every day. _I have plenty of clothes and socks: I have over half a
dozen of woollen socks_.
"The Gopher Mess send their best regards.
"Yours affectionately,
"Co. A, ORLEANS CADETS,
"Louisiana Battalion, Williamsburg, Virginia."
The formation of Fenner's Louisiana Battery was attended by tremendous
difficulties and discouragements, patiently met, nobly overcome, by
the gallant officer who found himself at last at the head of a company
composed of men who, whether considered in the aggregate, or as
individuals, had not their superiors in the Confederate
armies,--intelligently brave, enthusiastic, patriotic, gentlemen by
birth, breeding, and education, whom chivalrous devotion to duty
forbade to murmur at any hardship which fell to their lot. As officers
or private soldiers, looking to the future of the Confederacy as to
something assured; never despairing, ready to follow wherever and
whenever a "hope" was led, no matter how "forlorn."
The record of this little band of devoted patriots has never been
thoroughly known or understood as it deserves to be.
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