...siana, where crystal ponds, scattered live oaks, high lands, and streams skirted with groves abound. Leaving Vermillionville, continuing across prairies, we reached and, after a skirmish, entered Opelousas , one of the cleanest and prettiest towns of Louisiana. Here I rode in with our cavalry, and under orders seized and put a guard over the State Land Office, in which I found not only innumerable pla...