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uur swatera are going into winter quarters, constructing email log huts. The troops are rather poorly clad—wanting shoes and socks very much aud the proepect lor getting them la rather slim. ' I am more poorly clad at this lime, than I ever was at any previous period.. Our money la so depreciated that 11 will not purchase what we want I have money plenty, or aa much as I can use inpurchasing little things for present purposes butcannot ilnd good articles of clothing for winter Ihave sent up for a furlough to go to Noxubra county ; if i should get it, I will be able to supply myself with clothing down there. Very fewfurlou-hs are granted now, especially to Texans. Our men Irequently cross the river, and the authorities are unwulnig to grant permits of absence According to toe reports of the Adjutant Ganera!, there are aosent from this r.rmy twenty-six thou-sandmen a good army in itself. My oid native State is losing sutne of her prowess and ch.valry— this I regret very much, as I am so near her. and have to acknowledge my nativity.Texan* are the only troops that have preservedtheir chivalry untarmsheo. I have never heard/ S,egltUeUl or bri*ade runmr,*. on tb.sside of the Mississippi river. I fee] proud of thereputation oJ my Stale, though her soldiers have•tillered perhaps mure man any others, lui oiltrow homo—debarred the privilege of frequent communication wnh their tauulics-alt this has been very tring to the Texans. Kut. I Hunk as they were amorg the first to come out, they will be the last to leavy the field of contest— ^ ^ vt»ur Texas troops tn ih’s army have been neglected in one particular. We have no hospital tor them controlled by our State at all. While great sums have been spent in Vagin a, wherethere was but one brigade, wo have been entirely neglected here, where there are many brigades. Now. as that brigade has been transferred to this Department, 1 hope our friends at home will see that someof the fund* appropriated for Texas hospitals beused in this Department.
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Galveston Weekly News
Galveston, Texas, US
Wed, Mar 02, 1864
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