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courage and patient suffering has won the admiration of all who
have come in contact with him. He and Jake Beaumont are at
Washington now. Jake's wound ulcerated and sloughed off and to
prevent his bleeding to death one of his arteries was ligated above
the elbow, giving him as much pain as the wound itself.
Oct. 17 Saturday-Remained status quo. Preaching three times
during the day but no obdurate sinners converted that I have heard
of. Saw Tom Franklin and McCluskey and Frank Drake.
Oct. 18 Sunday-Preaching 3 times today-about o2 mourners
and promise of a revival. The 2nd La. Cav. picket was driven in
yesterday on Bayou Malleto0 by jayhawkers, but subsequently put
them to flight, capturing 2 horses. Saw Lt. Landry, Addie Perry's
husband, was introduced to him by Bob and hear that 5000 Yanks
were at Abbeville and the remainder of their force above there.
We are now (our Brig.) merged with Polignac's, Brig. Gen C. J.
Polignac'7o commanding. It comprises the following Tex. Regts. and
Batns., viz: Hawpes' Regt., Maj. Malone comdg., Speight's 15th
Regt., Lt. Col. Harrison Comdg., the 17th Tex. Regt., Alexander's
had not only brought his army face to face with Taylor's forces, but also with the
well-known conditions that would have to be met and overcome in the movement
beyond the Sabine. All idea of this march of more than two hundred miles
across a barren country, with no water in the summer and fall, while in the winter
and spring there is plenty of water but no road, was now given up once for all.
Besides the natural obstacles, there was Magruder to be reckoned with at the
end of the march and Taylor in the rear." Irwin, Nineteenth Army Corps, 274-275.
lo0Bayou Mallet is about seven miles west of Opelousas in St. Landry Parish.
lo7Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac, was known as the "La-
fayette of the Confederacy." A native of France and veteran of the Crimean War,
he joined the Confederate Army in July, 1861, and served on the staffs of Generals
Beauregard and Bragg in 1862. T'fansferred to the Trans-Mississippi early in 1863,
after being promoted to brigadier general, he was given command of a brigade
of Texas troops. Polignac attained the highest rank of any alien in the Con-
federate Army. Warner, Generals in Gray, 241. Because of the difficulty in pro-
nouncing his name, the irreverent Texans soon dubbed him General "Polecat."
Mrs. D. Giraud Wright, A Southern Girl in '6z (New York, 19o5), 92-93. "In the
winter there joined me from Arkansas a brigade of Texas infantry, numbering seven
hundred muskets. The men had been recently dismounted, and were much dis-
contented thereat. Prince Charles Polignac, a French gentleman of ancient lineage,
and a brigadier in the Confederate army, reported for duty about the same time,
and was assigned to command this brigade. The Texans swore that a Frenchman,
whose very name they could not pronounce, should never command them, and
mutiny was threatened. I went to their camp, assembled the officers, and pointed
out the consequences of disobedience, for which I should hold them accountable;
but promised that if they remained dissatisfied with their new commander after
an action, I would then remove him. Order was restored, but it was up-hill work
for General Polignac for some time, notwithstanding his patience and good temper.
The incongruity of the relation struck me, and I thought of sending my monte-
dealing Texas colonel to Paris, to command a brigade of the Imperial Guard."
Taylor, Destruction and Reconstruction, 153.420o
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