Mr. Anderson:

You might not be interested in the following, but I post in the hope that someone can/will make use of it. The citation and link to the source is given. You will have to click on page 588.

From:
Southern literary messenger; devoted to every department of literature and the fine arts./ vol. 34, iss. 10
Publication Date: Oct 1862
City: Richmond, Virginia, Publisher: T.W. White [etc.].

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MOBILE, Sept. 18th, 1862.
Editor of the Messenger:
Dear Sir:-As the'Messenger" is the only magazine of the Confederacy, years hence its columns will be read with avidity. In the June number of the Messenger,I find a slight error, which slight as it is, may create a great mistake in the distant future. You will confer a favor upon all members of the 35th Alabama Regiment Volunteers, of which I have the honor to be a private of company B., at present on sick furlough, by correcting it in a future issue in the "Editor's Table. In an article by "Skitt," entitled "The Desperade" -he mentions Co. E. of the 35th Alabama Regiment as here-and has that regiment stationed at Loachapoka. I am almost certain that very few members of that regiment ever saw that place. The 35th Alabama Regiment was formed in North Alabamia exclusively, and was never in a camp of instruction, but was marched from La Grange, Alabama, to Corinth, immediately after the Yanks occupied Huntsville, and as soon as the regiment was formied. Colonel Robertson, formerly of the La Grange, (Ala.) Military Academy, is, and was the only Colonel the 35th ever had, and a noble officer is he, as his noble conduct at the battle of Baton Rouge, proved.

The 35th Alabama Regiment was placed in Major-General Breckinridge's Division, and followed that General to Vicksburg, -and were in the battle of Baton Rouge, behaving themselves like veterans. Will you please correct the mistake of "Skitt," and oblige A Furloughed Private.

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Hoyt Cagle