At about noon of this day on board the steamboat Illinois we
left our good old home at the fort in Donaldsonville and steamed up the broad
Mississippi river for Alexandria, Louisiana. We had passed so many happy days
in that old fort that it had come to seem very much like home to the First
Louisiana and so far as I was concerned I did not leave it without some
regrets: but war is war and I consoled myself by looking forward to the time
when the victory would be gained and we could enjoy the fruits of it with the
loved ones at home.
SOURCE: Abstracted from George G. Smith, Leaves from
a Soldier's Diary, p. 91
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