FEBRUARY 10-13, 1865. - Expedition from Thibodeaux to Lake Verret, La.
Report of Captain John H. Alexander, First Louisiana Cavalry.

HDQRS. COMPANY K, FIRST LOUISIANA CAVALRY,
Thibodeaux, La., February 13, 1865.

SIR: I have the honor to respectfully submit the following as a report of the marches of Company K, First Louisiana Cavalry, and Sixteenth Indiana Mounted Infantry, on reconnaissance to Lake Verret:

At 3 p. m. on the 10th I marched from here with eighty-four men, on Labadieville road through Brule Landry, or Little Texas, to within five miles of Lake Verret. The roads were so bad I stopped at Bondsnim's plantation. Lieutenant Pomponeau, with six men, dismounted, went to the lake at a point between Coupee Lannes and Shell Bank, but was unable to discover anything. . . . . . . . I left the Shell Bank at 10 a. m., and retraced my steps to Brule Texas, taking the road to Bayou Blue. We head to wade over two miles in water from six inches to three feet deep, reaching the lake at 5 p. m., but found nothing but one small skiff (which we destroyed), and the steam-boat. After leaving the lake I had the trestle-work destroyed on Bayou Blue. The road leading from Texas to the canal being impassable, I marched back to Kittredge's plantation and halted to rest and feed until daylight the 12th instant, when I again started for Napoleonville, where I arrived at 10 a. m.

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