Headquarters Forty-ninth Regiment, M. V.
M.
Camp Banks, Baton Rouge, La.
Dear Mother: — . . . .
March 5.
Splendid weather still. I wish I was in the brigade of some general instead of
Colonel Chapin.
Met Chapin in the
afternoon. He said Augur complimented my regiment and the One Hundred and
Sixteenth very highly. Went to bed before tattoo, pretty tired.
SOURCE: Francis
Winthrop Palfrey, Memoir of William Francis Bartlett, p. 68
