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The Daily Dispatch: November 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
xican war it was company A of the regiment; raised and commanded by Col. Persiter Smith, with J. B. Walton, the present commander of the battalion, as Lieutenant-Colonel. Soon after arriving in Mexico, Col. Smith was made a Brigadier General, and Col. Walton was promoted to the command of the regiment. After their term of enlistment expired the company returned to New Orleans since which time inies formed themselves into a battalion, and are under the following officers; Staff--Major J. B. Walton; Adjutant, Wm. M. Owen; Surgeon, E. S. Brow. First Company--Captain C. W. Squires; 1stles. These are all men of marked characters, and gentlemen in every sense of the word. Major Walton is a man of powerful frame, straight and soldierly, and looks very much like the portraits ofits growing reputation, and connected, as he has been. with nearly every fight and skirmish, Major Walton has attracted general notice, and is destined to figure largely in the history of the war.