This day closes up a very eventful year in our history. Many
graves had been made. Disease and the fortunes of war had done their work, and
the ranks of the First Louisiana Infantry Volunteers were thinned to less than
one half the original number. Still we went on, heedless of what the future
might bring. No thought of the morrow. “Let the things of the morrow take care
of themselves.” Today nine companies moved into the barracks and Co. C moved
into the fort just as we were one year ago. Col. Fisk in command of the Post.
SOURCE: Abstracted from George G. Smith, Leaves from
a Soldier's Diary, p. 143
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