Anonymous Civil War letter, 1863 May 6.

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Anonymous Civil War letter, 1863 May 6.

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An anonymous Union soldier writing from Barre's Landing (Port Barre) east of Opelousas, La., during the First Bayou Teche Campaign describes capturing rebel cotton and sugar; marching from Donaldsonville, through Thibodaux, up Bayou Teche, and on to Opelousas; Gen. Cuvier Grover's losses at the Battle of Irish Bend (April 14, 1863); skirmishing with rebels along the march; sending runaway slaves to plantations around New Orleans; and speaking with freedmen trying to learn to read in Baton Rouge.

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Grover, Cuvier, 1828-1885,

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