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A Stinging Company

12 06 1861 [Friday]

A Stinging Company

A Memphis paper, announcing the arrival of a company

of volunteers from Plaquemine, Louisiana, say:

“All the officers had sword belts made of Rattlesnake

Skins, while the privates wore a Rattlesnake Rattle in

their caps."

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