shingled-roofed

Updated: July 24, 2025

I got several letters, one was from mother. I went to a Catholic meeting. Donaldsonville is an exceedingly pretty place, very old-fashioned, shingled-roofed town. A bayou extends through the center, some three hundred yards wide; it runs to the gulf and is so deep that a frigate lies in it about a mile from where it sets in from the Mississippi.

George P. Bissell - The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion: History, Reminiscences, Description of Battle of Irish: Bend, Carrying of Pay Roll, Roster