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Updated: October 14, 2025
Before this, Captain Julius Sanford, of the 23d Connecticut, set fire to the sugar-house filled with the baggage and clothing of the troops engaged at Port Hudson. Meanwhile, for the surprise of Brashear, Mouton had collected thirty-seven skiffs and boats of all sorts near the mouth of the Teche, and manned them with 325 volunteers, under the lead of Major Sherod Hunter.
Etta's father was right; those who realized what life really was and what it might be, those who were sensitive took to drink or went to pieces some other way, if they were gentle, and if they were cruel, committed any brutality, any crime to try to escape. In former days Susan thought well of charity, as she had been taught. Old Tom Brashear gave her a different point of view.
Notwithstanding the vast quantity of stores committed to their care, including the effects of their comrades, and in spite of all warnings, so slack and indifferent was the performance of duty on the part of the garrison of Brashear that, on the morning of the 23d of June, the reveillé was sounded for them by the guns of the Valverde battery.
She wants anything that'll make me more contented. Oh, I do get so lonesome!" Mrs. Brashear, a spare woman, much bent by monotonous work which, however, had not bent her courage or her cheerfulness made Susan feel at home immediately in the little flat. The tenement was of rather a superior class.
They didn't ask me when I registered at the hotel." Mrs. Brashear stared, then smiled. "A hotel is different. Where are you stopping?" "At the St. Denis." "A very nice place. Who directed you here?" "No one. I strolled around until I found a street I liked, and looked around until I found a house I liked. The card in the window " "Of course. Well, Mr.
Besides the Indianians, who numbered about 30 all told, there were at Brashear four companies D, G, I, K of the 23d Connecticut, two companies of the 176th New York, about 150 strong, and one company, or the equivalent of a company, of the 42d Massachusetts, making in all rather less than 400 effectives; there were also about 300 convalescents, left behind by nearly thirty regiments.
For he need not save any more. He would go ahead, fast, now that he had got his start. How easy it had been. Entering the Brashear door, he met plain, middle-aged little Miss Westlake. A muffler was pressed to her jaw.
"And in the churches," said old Tom Brashear, "they preach the goodness and mercy of God. And in the papers they talk about how rich and prosperous we are." "I don't care to live! It is too horrible," cried the girl. "Oh, you mustn't take things so to heart," counseled he. "Us that live this life can't afford to take it to heart.
Thence he proceeded down the Atchafalaya to Brashear, and so by rail to New Orleans.
After landing, he was to turn back the transports to Brashear, where Benton's division of the Thirteenth Corps would be found waiting to join him. After many delays, due to the state and inadequacy of the transports, which, besides ten ocean steamers, fit and unfit, included six river steamers wholly of the latter class, Weitzel sailed from New Orleans on the evening of the 4th of September.
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