![]() ![]() Lawler did plan it, but the Rebs did not favor us with a call. The 2nd Brigade was closed in mass, one half on each flank on our line of battle and the 3rd Brigade was concealed in the timber. The rumor was that the Rebs were coming 16,000 to attack us. The next morning after I wrote to you last, our brigade was ordered up about 2 o'clock and marched about 3 miles on the west side of Iberia. “I must tell you now of a battle some of our boys had. They were all as fat as pigs and are all in good spirits.” ![]() They were all glad to see me, and I was glad to see them. I saw Henry, Henry Losey, Robert Avery, John Burlingame, Lawyer Harrison, and all the busy boys who belong to the 77th. Our cook is getting dinner and as tired as I. We of the Pioneers are camped on the bank of the river and my squad are in a good humor. Got up Monday morning and started by 5:00 and marched to within five miles of this place, a distance of 30 miles again. We started from New Iberia Sunday morning and marched the first day to Franklin, a distance of 30 miles. “My Dearest Wife, Here we are again camped on the Atchafalaya river. The battle resulted in a Confederate victory, the Union Army reporting casualties of 26 killed, 124 wounded, and 566 captured or missing, and the rebels admitting a loss of 22 killed and 103 wounded. Richard Taylor, Green launched an attack on the Union camp after receiving three infantry regiments, led by Col. The engagement was between the forces of rebel Brig. The Battle of Bayou Bourbeux was fought in southwestern Louisiana on 3 November 1863, seven days prior to the date of this letter. William died in the Battle of Resaca in Georgia in 1864 Melville was captured and was wounded in the leg during the war, but survived. John’s two brothers, William and Melville Follett, also fought in the Civil War. Moving to Atkinson, IL in 1904, he lived there until 1906 when he moved again, to Lincoln, Nebraska, before dying in 1908. In 1882 he went to North Dakota to take up his soldier’s claim, but after several successive droughts he returned to his Illinois farm, where he lived until retiring in 1904. Follett is described in a history of the 33rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry as a “staunch, reliable, ‘Rock of Chickamauga’ kind of soldier.” After the war, he resumed farming in Galesburg and in 1874 he moved to Cambridge, IL. in 1865, he was mustered out in November of 1865. In 1864, he took part in Nathaniel Banks’s Red River Campaign and was promoted to Sergeant. Working as a farmer before the war, Follett was mustered into the Illinois 33rd Volunteer Infantry, Company H in Sept. Follett (1832–1908) moved to Galesburg, Henry County, Illinois with his family in 1837, one of the seven original families to settle Galesburg. CONDITION: Very good, old folds, no losses to the text.Ī rich letter providing a rare in-depth description of the Battle of Bayou Bourbeau in Louisiana in 1863 in the second part of the letter, Follett touches on such domestic matters as his wife’s attending a dance back home, the payment of debts, and his own “mean ugly temper.”īorn in New York, John M.
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