St Landry County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....McCauley, Jesse M. January 5, 1862
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The Opelousas Courier (Opelousas, LA) Jan. 11, 1862
DIED.- At Richmond, Va., on Sunday, at twenty minutes after ten o'clock A. M., 
of typhoid fever, Jesse M. McCauley, aged twenty-four years and nine months.

Like our youthful hopes, one by one they leave us! Again has the unerring shaft 
from the fatal bow of the death angel pierced the vitals of one of our best 
beloved, and most galiant comrades in arms.

It is true, that it is hard to reconcile ourselves to the death of one, who a 
short while since was the life and pride of the Camp. Although it is difficult 
to realize that we will no more follow his elastic and martial step on the 
forced march to the battle field, and, that his ringing laugh, and independent 
voice will be heard by us no more on earth for ever. Yet, we will meekly bow to 
the divine dispensation which has cut him down in the pride and power of his 
manhood, and reconcile ourselves with the pleasing reflection, that although 
the God of battles did not decree that he should return to the State of his 
nativity, exulting in the hour of victory, he has permitted us to transmit his 
corpse to his distant home for sepulture, with a wreath of laurels worthy of a 
Lacedemonian hero, encircling his cold, pale brow.

"That gallant form, now cold and dead,

Each mournful thought employs;

We weep our earthly comforts fled,

And withered all our joys."

To the bereaved relatives and friends of the deceased, we offer our sincere 
condolence for the irreparable loss they have sustained, and recommend them to 
that fountain of consolation which is ever open, to pour a healing balm into 
the souls of the afflicted.

B. R. Butler

On the part of the St. Landry Guard

Camp Carondolet, Va., Dec. 20, 1861

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