Honor To Our Volunteers, November 6, 1846

(From Vicksburg Sentinel, November 10, 1846.)

The Vicksburg Volunteers, and Southrons, and the Warren Cavalry, have tendered a COLLATION to be given at the Southron's hall in Vicksburg, on Tuesday evening next, at 7 o'clock, to those who have returned from Mexico, on Furlough, and on account of ill health.

It is intended as a Compliment to Col. Jefferson Davis, Capt. George P. Crump, of the Volunteers—Capt. John Willis, of the Southrons, and all the returned Volunteers of said Companies. As the members returned are dispersed through the County, it is impossible for the Committee to reach them by private communication, and they are hereby specially invited to be present on the occasion.

The Committee also take great pleasure in tendering invitations, without distinction, to all those gallant Volunteers belonging to other Companies of the Mississippi Regiment who have returned, and who can make it convenient to honor the Collation by their presence, to partake with their comrades in arms.

MILES C. FOLKES,        

ALEX. H. ARTHUR,        

ALEX. M. PAXTON,        

DANIEL S. MERCEIN,        

ISAAC G. BIBBY,        

JAS. H. MCRAVEN,        

C. A. MANLOVE,        

E. G. WALKER,        

Committee.

Vicksburg, Nov. 6, 1846.

SOURCE: Dunbar Rowland, Editor, Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist: His Letters, Papers and Speeches, Volume 1, p. 61