Headquarters Forty-ninth Regiment, M. V. M.
Camp Banks, Baton Rouge, La., March 4, 1863.
Dear Mother, —
I wrote you last on the 28th. Sunday, March 1, was a beautiful day. Ben and I took
a ride in the afternoon. Went down to the river, up to General Dwight's
quarters. Fletcher Abbott and Charley Dwight rode home with us. I stopped at
the Fiftieth Regiment. Sam Duncan is not here yet; three of their companies are
down the river at quarantine; he is with them, and the Lieutenant-colonel.
Colonel Tom. Chickering called to see me after I got back. Dress parade was the
best we ever had. I felt very proud of them, the result of my instruction and
discipline on them. General Augur came up to-day, March 2. I saw him a few
minutes.
SOURCE: Francis Winthrop Palfrey, Memoir of William
Francis Bartlett, p. 66
