...d Rifles --was stationed at Fort Jessup [Jesup], Louisiana, some twenty-five miles east of the Texas line, to observe the frontier. About the 1st of May [April 20] the 3d infantry was ordered from Jefferson Barracks to Louisiana, to go into camp in the neighborhood of Fort Jessup, and there await further orders. The troops were embarked on steamers and were on their way down the Mississippi within a few days a...