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George C. Burmeister diary, 1864
1864-03-12
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plantation, this was only a pretense however to destroy his property and to plunder his house, for it was afterwards ascertained that the pretended confederate flag was nothing but a red and white window curtain and the commission was date 1841 it was for the state militia. I feel very sorry this has happened, we should protect the citizens of this state if loyal and encourage them to organize a civil government under Lincoln’s proclamation, which they are now trying to do. If the man whose property was so wantonly destroyed is a rebel why not let our superior officers give the command to destroy their property or to punish them in some other way. He lost $5.000 in specie, which some man found in the ruins. Why cannot this vandalism be stopped? Saturday 12. At nine o’clock this morning we were ordered to fire up, and we got off at a little before noon, the gun boats and the rams went ahead our boat was the fourth transport after the head quarters boat, instead of continuing our course in Red river we went down the Atchafalaya or a river of a similar name, about 15 miles to Deglaze Bayou where we landed. The rebels had erected rifle pits on the one bank of the river. I and capt Dill and Lt. Clark, walked out to reconnoiter, we passed a catholic church, and a half a mile from there we came upon a deserted rebel camp, it had been abandoned this afternoon, the force
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plantation, this was only a pretense however to destroy his property and to plunder his house, for it was afterwards ascertained that the pretended confederate flag was nothing but a red and white window curtain and the commission was date 1841 it was for the state militia. I feel very sorry this has happened, we should protect the citizens of this state if loyal and encourage them to organize a civil government under Lincoln’s proclamation, which they are now trying to do. If the man whose property was so wantonly destroyed is a rebel why not let our superior officers give the command to destroy their property or to punish them in some other way. He lost $5.000 in specie, which some man found in the ruins. Why cannot this vandalism be stopped? Saturday 12. At nine o’clock this morning we were ordered to fire up, and we got off at a little before noon, the gun boats and the rams went ahead our boat was the fourth transport after the head quarters boat, instead of continuing our course in Red river we went down the Atchafalaya or a river of a similar name, about 15 miles to Deglaze Bayou where we landed. The rebels had erected rifle pits on the one bank of the river. I and capt Dill and Lt. Clark, walked out to reconnoiter, we passed a catholic church, and a half a mile from there we came upon a deserted rebel camp, it had been abandoned this afternoon, the force
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