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interesting to write about. I started from Philadelphia on the 6th of
Nov. and arived here on the 7th of December. nothing extra ordenary
hapened on my way here. the day that I arived here I was musterd in,
and placed in command of a Company, the being very short of Officers.
the Regt' numbers about 900oo men. the are well disciplind and I be-
lieve make good Soldiers, but there is not much Soldiering done here,
with the exception of dress prade and guard. we are constandly on
fatigue and by appearances we will be on fatigue untill we are mus-
tered out wich I dont think will be before the mens time expires wich
will be about a year from now. thinks are quite differant from what
the were in the Anderson Cavalry.' thare I hat nothing to do but tell a
clerk to make out any papers there was to be made out, but here a
man has to do everything himself even to making out the Morning re-
port. it toke me two whole days to make out the muster Rolls for De-
cember 31st. heartofore I was not certain whethir I was able to make
out all the company papers but I dont find it half as hard as I immagend.
I have made out all my returns for the fourth quarter already. there
is quiet a differance in the Officers of oure old Regt. and this. when
I see you again I will tell you, as I don't like to say anything about
it at pressent.
I supose you would like to here somthing about Mexican affairs.
even as I am writing now the French fleet8 is bombarding the little Mex-
6Reference is to the 2nd U. S. Colored Cavalry. This regiment of cavalry was operating
in Virginia in March, 1864. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official
Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (130 vols.; Washington, 1880-1901), Series
I, Vol. XXXIII, 238; hereafter cited as Official Records. It may be surmised that this
regiment was organized only shortly before, for no earlier reference to it is made in the
Official Records, a massive compilation of primary materials on the Civil War. The 2nd
U. S. Colored Cavalry continued to operate in Virginia and by January, 1865, had been
absorbed into the XXVth Army Corps. Ibid., XLVI, Part 2, 336. In June, 1865, the
XXVth Army Corps was ordered to Texas, and in February, 1866, the 2nd U. S. Colored
Cavalry was mustered out of the Army. H. A. Schmidt, Chief, Historical Services Di-
vision, Washington, D. C., to B. A. S., August 11, 1967.
"Anderson Cavalry" is another term for the 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry. The name
came from the Anderson Troop which was organized by William Jackson Palmer late in
1861 as a headquarters guard and bodyguard to General Robert Anderson of Fort Sumter
fame. Anderson was briefly in command of the Army of the Cumberland. He was re-
placed by General Don Carlos Buell who accepted the Anderson Troop as his own
bodyguard. When the Anderson Troop was enlarged by William Jackson Palmer into
the 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry, the term "Anderson Cavalry" was also used to designate
Palmer's new regiment. Suzanne C. Wilson, Column South: With the Fifteenth Pennsyl-
vania Cavalry from Antietam to the Capture of Jeferson Davis (Flagstaff, Arizona, 1960),
1.
sIn 1861 Napoleon III began an invasion of Mexico under the pretense of collecting
defaulted debts. Mexico City was occupied by French forces in June, 1863, and in April,
1864, Archduke Maximilian of Austria accepted the throne of Mexico. Napoleon III
agreed to support Maximilian militarily and financially until 1867. By early 1866 Amer-
ican public opinion was decidedly anti-French, and Secretary of State William Seward
was putting more and more pressure on Napoleon III for the withdrawal of French
support of Maximilian. Dexter Perkins, The Monroe Doctrine, 1826-1867 (Baltimore,
1933), 114-138, and J. M. Callahan, American Foreign Policy in Mexican Relations
(New York, 1932), 278-330.
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