The first two columns are detailed accounts of the Lafourche Creoles, begining February 14, 1862, and up through October 19, 1862. They seem to have been the LA 18th Infantry, Company G. The July 31,1862 entry states: Thirty-one members of the Crescent Regiment transferred to the company. Then, about October 9 to the 14th, -transferring the members of the Crescent Regiment back to their former regiment. What unit was this? The diary was signed "Bon Soir, Uncle Silas"; any idea who this was?
Column three gives the headline: Startling News! 20,000 Yankees and eight gunboats near Donaldsonville!!!! A ---at fight anticipated! We stop the press to announce to the citizens of Thibodaux the startling intelligence that over 20,000 of Brute Butler's hirelings came up the river in transforts last night, and at daylight commenced to disembark..........etc, etc. What date would this have been?
Column Four is in French, a language with which I am not familiar (sorry, great-grandmother Lacoste, this education was not provided to me). It seems to deal with local ordinances dealing with the police.
I'm very surprised that a newspaper would have to resort to wallpaper stock so early in the war. Can anyone direct me to other extant issues of LA wallpaper issues?
Lastly, the subscriber of this copy was a Mrs. S.H.Dexter. Was any of her family in service?