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May 3o Marched 2o miles to 2 miles below Opelousas.'"
May 31 Marched io miles to Carencro."
June i Marched 17 miles to Vermilionville"$ and put on duty
there same day with Co. E and detachments of C. & D."' as Prov. Mar.
and Comdr. of Post. Lt. Duncan" and 20 cavalry of Co. F reported
to me for duty about the 6th, remained in performance of said office
until
June 14 Marched 8 miles to Carencro.
June 15 18 miles to Washington, La.,'" Maj. Irvine" Prov. Mar.,
I deputy until ordered to report to Camp Bisland" as member of
Court Martial.
June 23 Took stage arriving at New Iberia same day in evening.
A storm that night and exchanged place in stage for horse next day.
June 24 Proceeded on horseback to Franklin.
June 25 Walked 8 miles below to Col. Tarlton's plantation 2 miles
above Bisland, remaining there until 29th.
May [June] 29 Returned to Franklin and then learned that the
Batn. had taken up the march on 25th for the [Berwick] Bay--awaited
the Co. until
May [June] go Sgt. Swinford, Corp. Dougherty and Priv. Potter,
Hixon and Clubb's arrived early in morning at Hotel, took breakfast
with me and we together (the Co. having encamped the night before
"OOpelousas, one of the oldest towns in western Louisiana, was established by the
French in the mid-eighteenth century. Under the Spanish, 1762-1802, Opelousas
was the governing center of all of southwestern Louisiana. During the Civil War it
was the capital of Louisiana from May, 1862, to January, 1863.
"'The road from Opelousas to Vermilionville (Lafayette) crosses Carencro Bayou
some ten miles south of Opelousas. Carencro is the Cajun corruption of carrion
crow. It derived its name from the Indian legend that a monster animal once
died there and that the air for weeks was thick with carrion crows. Louisiana: A
Guide to the State, (New York, 1945), 630.
,"Vermilionville, present day Lafayette, was laid out by Jean Mouton as the
parish seat in 1824. It had been a settlement since the 1770's.
"Of the 11th (Spaight's) Texas Volunteer Battalion.
"Lieutenant George C. Duncan of Liberty County commanded a detachment
of Company F, the "Moss Bluff Rebels," of Spaight's battalion.
"Settled in 18oo, Washington in 1863 was an important shipping point on
Bayou Courtableau some eight miles north of Opelousas. During the campaign of
1863 it became a convenient concentration point for General Taylor's troops.
46Major Josephus S. Irvine of Spaight's battalion was a veteran of the battle
of San Jacinto in the Texas Revolution.
"Located on both sides of Bayou Teche about two miles northwest of Patter-
son in St. Mary Parish, Camp or Fort Bisland was named for the plantation owner
on whose land it was situated.
"8Second Sergeant Eberle Swinford, Second Corporal Patrick Daugherty, and
Privates Harry Potter, H. James Hixon, and William R. Clubb, were all in Com-
pany E.
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