Newspaper: Banner Democrat, East Carroll Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by: Evelyn Mathews Ross 9/02
Dedicated to my mother & her love of genealogy.


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Banner Democrat
Saturday, July 22, 1899
Page 3


FROM AN OLD CONFEDERATE.
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Canton, Ky., July 4, 1899.
      Mr. Editor: -- My object in writing you is to find out if some of 
my old comrades are yet in the land of the living. I went out with 
Company II, 3rd La. Volunteers, and our company was known as the 
Monticello Rifles, J.S. Richards, Captain; D. Hardeman, 1st Lieut.; C.A. 
Hedrick, 2nd Lieut.; Wm. Corban, 3rd Lieut. I have forgotten our orderly 
sergeant, but he was a good old man, and I think was discharged during 
the first year of the war. Then H.B. Briggs was made orderly, and served
in that capacity until we stacked arms at Vicksburg, thirty-nine years 
ago to-day. Mr. Briggs was a native of the State of New York, and was as
good a soldier as ever fired a gun; but I think our company was made up
of as good material as could be found anywhere; officers and men were
brave and fearless. I would be glad to hear from some of them. I am an
old man now; will be sixty-four years old on the 11th of August, if I
should live to that time. It has been so long since I lived in your
parish that I have forgotten the names of a great many persons. I am a
native of Kentucky, and went to Floyd in 1858, and did business in that
place with my brother-in-law, G.M. Langford, and knew a great many
people.
      If I could I would pay dear old Carroll a visit before I die. I 
had but one sister, and she sleeps on a mound two miles below Floyd, on 
what was then known as the Creed Motley place, but I will never be able 
to visit the spot. I know everybody would be strangers now; but if I 
could see the Lotts, the DeFrance's, the Cheatham's, Draughn, the 
Montgomery's, the Wyly's Roberts, Delony, Darden, Hanagan's, and a host 
of other good people, it would be a very great pleasure to me in my old 
age. Hoping this will be the means of finding some of my old friends, I 
am respectfully,
                                            J.A. HUMPHRIES.