. . . ordered to Camp Williams and arrived there the next
day. It is fourteen miles above New Orleans, near Carlton. Soon after we
arrived Colonel Holcomb shot a man by the name of John Dramond for disobedience. The ball penetrated his left breast and he died instantly. Camp
Williams was on a narrow strip of land, with Lake Ponchartrain on one side, and
a deep swamp on the other. The latter was full of standing water, and the
habitation of reptiles and every unclean and hateful bird; but it was of
strategic importance as one of the defences of New Orleans.
SOURCE: George G. Smith, Leaves from a Soldier's
Diary, p. 27
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