Was told by S. N.
Brogdon, on the stage, that my old college classmate, Loudon Butler, was
Captain of Company B, Nineteenth Louisiana regiment. Left Shreveport this
morning at daylight and came through a very rich and pretty country for
twenty-five or thirty miles; nearly all planted in corn; passed Mrs. Butler's
plantation and heard of Loudon; he is in Mobile. Came to Minden by dark and
inquired for Mr. Bayliss, formerly pastor of the First Baptist church at Waco,
Texas, and learned that he had left a day or two before for the army; came on
after dark to stage stand ten miles east of Minden. There I met gentlemen just
from Natchez, who told me that my former companions, Lieutenant Selman, Burwell
Aycock and Coella Mullens were on the other side of the river.
SOURCE: John Camden
West, A Texan in Search of a Fight: Being the Diary and Letters of a
Private Soldier in Hood’s Texas Brigade, p. 31
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