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Thomas C. DeLeon, Four years in Rebel capitals: an inside view of life in the southern confederacy, from birth to death., Chapter 8: New Orleans, the Crescent city. (search)
res and workingmen generally, and were officered by such young men as the governor and council deemed best fitted. The Levee had been scoured and a battalion of Tigers formed from the very lowest of the thugs and plugs that infested it, for Major Bob Wheat, the well-known filibuster. Poor Wheat! His roving spirit still and his jocund voice now mute, he sleeps soundly under the sighing trees of Hollywood-that populous city of the silent at Richmond. It was his corps of which such wild andWheat! His roving spirit still and his jocund voice now mute, he sleeps soundly under the sighing trees of Hollywood-that populous city of the silent at Richmond. It was his corps of which such wild and ridiculous stories of bowie-knife prowess were told at the Bull Run fight. They, together with the Crescent rifles, Chasseurs-à--pied and Zouaves, were now at Pensacola. The Rifles was a crack corps, composed of some of the best young men in New Orleans; and the whole corps of Chasseurs was of the same material. They did yeomen's service in the four years, and the last one saw very few left of what had long since ceased to be a separate organization. But of all the gallant blood that wa