(From Vicksburg Sentinel, August 18, 1847.)
Sir: A number of the
volunteers in the first Regiment from this State have expressed a very natural
anxiety to be allowed to retain the Arms they have borne in Mexico. The
attachment which a soldier feels for his gun may easily be imagined. The
Mississippians of the first regiment will return home in the course of a few
weeks. The reluctance which many of them have expressed, and all of them feel
to giving up their guns, induces me to request an order that
they be allowed to retain them. If this request cannot be granted, I then
request that the arms in the hands of the volunteers belonging to the first
Mississippi Regiment may be issued to this State as a part of the quota due
her, in which event the State will present them to the volunteers. The Regiment
will feel gratified, as well as the citizens of Mississippi generally, if a
piece of ordnance taken at Monterey, were presented to the volunteers on their
return home as a trophy of that victory, which the Regiment from our State
assisted in achieving.
Very Respectfully,
SOURCE: Dunbar
Rowland, Editor, Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist: His Letters, Papers
and Speeches, Volume 1, p. 89-90
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