Sugar Planter
Baton Rouge
May 25, 1865
When the Cotten touched at Bruly Landing to take on board the Tirrailleurs, an old negro woman in the crowd was observed to be much excited, and with almost frantic pleadings begged to go on board the boat.—A bystander asked her the reason for such strange behavior. She replied that her young master was going away to be killed in the war, and that as she had nursed him in infancy, she wished to go and attend upon him wherever he went. We confess our eyes felt moist at witnessing such an exhibition of feeling from a ‘poor, downtrodden slave’ to liberate whom the North has waged an unholy war upon us for years. She was not allowed to go.