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out with him now for about one year, and I have never known
him fail to fight the enemy; it mattering not how large the force
of the enemy and how diminutive his own force. He would fight
them on every inch of the ground. When he was forced to re-
treat, it was always done slowly, in good order, and fighting all
the time with his face to the foe. He never waited for the enemy
to come to him. He always went to them. He was a terror to
Yankees, and to their artillery. The enemy have learned how to
be cautious with their batteries; for it mattered not how heavy
they were firing, Gen. Green would go to them and take them
out of their hands.
Our Country has certainly lost the best cavalry field officer on
this side the river. This dreadful casualty has thrown a sad
gloom over our otherwise elated army. Gen Green's remains pass
today en route for Austin, Texas. What I have said of Major
General Green, I intended as no eulogy, because I feel myself
[Sketch of pointed shaft, inscribed: Pax ad cujus cineres.
In Memory of Major General Thomas Green.]
entirely unable to write the eulogy of so great a man, and be-
sides, if I were able, I could not do so in the short limits of a
diary. General Green fought the Yankee Gunboats the 12th of
April 1863, at camp Bisland on the Teche, and on the 12th April
1864, was killed in a fight against a gunboat. In this fight, the
fight a little above yestarday morning, we had about thirty men
killed and wounded. Gen Green was the only man killed of his
old brigade. The two Yankee Transports, were very much dam-
aged, our men killed and wounding many aboard. They stopped
some distance below and buried fourteen men. The enemy pour-
ing such heavy quantities of grape shot upon our men, they were
obliged to withdraw.
The cavalry have now been ordered to join General Bee, before
Grandecore and Nachitoches.
Dinner of flower bread and fried bacon - read various read-
ing matter. I have heard no news from Texas in a long time.
My correspondence in all broken off, and I get no letters. How
I would like to get a letter from somebody.
The Yankees, who started to Shreveport by the river have all
passed down, and the whole federal force now seems to be at
Grandecore with a fleet of Gunboats, and a place remarkably well2286
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