To the First
Mississippi Regiment:
The undersigned, a
committee, appointed at a meeting of the citizens of the city of Natchez and
county of Adams, to tender to the First Mississippi Regiment an invitation to
partake of the hospitalities of their city and county, have the honor to
discharge that pleasing and grateful office.
In the name of the
city and county, the committee present their most respectful and pressing
invitation to their gallant fellow-citizens of the First Mississippi Regiment
to visit them upon their return to their homes, and to allow them an
opportunity to express in some degree the warm gratitude, admiration of pride,
which fills all hearts for those brave men who have so nobly sustained and
increased the glory of our beloved State by courage, constancy and gallantry,
unsurpassed in the history of any country.
SOURCE: Dunbar
Rowland, Editor, Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist: His Letters,
Papers and Speeches, Volume 1, p. 84
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