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From: "Lona Boudreaux" <>
Subject: Re: [PaCambri] Civil War bodies
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:52:17 -0600
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Hi Marilyn,

Thank you for this information. I will see about interlibrary loan.

I remembered I did have another uncle that was killed at St. Petersburg and
buried there. Also has a headstone. He was in the Pa.148th Infantry
Regiment.

I've enjoyed reading these emails.

Lona
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Subject: Re: [PaCambri] Civil War bodies


> Dear Lona,
> You should find the book, "Colored Troops [or soldiers] and their
White Officer," sorry I do not have the author. It gives you all the
particulars of how the officers were selected. Even better, for you, it has
a lot of information about the Colored Troops from Louisanna. They were an
all Black unit, with Black officers, and some continued to serve. They
really did a heroic job at Vicksburg, and the book details it.
> Also, Volume III of "The Union Calvary in the Civil War" details the
battles in the West, including the Battle of Vicksburg.
> My g-grandfather got a pension because of dysentery, but I am not
sure why he was in the hospital five times. Dysentery is a bacterial
infection of the digestive system that kills by dehydration through
diahrrea. People would seemingly recover, but since the germs would stay in
the system, they had recurrent attacks. Babies often died of it befor milk
was pasturized, and it was called Summer Complaint or Cholera Infantum in
the death records.
> Marilyn Kline Washington
>
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