September 6, 1861 — From the Parish of St. Mary

New Orleans Daily Crescent, New Orleans, LA

In the Mary’s Banner of Saturday last we find the following paragraphs:

This parish has now sent to the war not less than three hundred volunteers. The St. Mary Volunteers, Capt. Murphy, numbering over ninety; the Attakapas Riflemen, Capt Bethel, forty-five; and more than one hundred men have left for Virginia, Tennessee, and elsewhere, without joining any company.

Besides these, a large number of transient people, carpenters, engineers, laborers and others have left for other parts, leaving our parish with not much over one-half of her usual voting and fighting population for home defence. St. Mary is one of the most exposed parishes in tie State, and still she has sent her full quota to the war. Since March she has not had a voting population of 800 men.

It has rained nearly forty days and forty nights, and bids fair to keep on raining the balance of the year. We shall soon need arks more than gun boats. It is impossible for the best of folks to feel thankful for so much of a good thing.

Twenty-seven ladies in the lower part of the parish, from Pattersonville to the Bay, have agreed to make up 1273 garments for the Southern army. And we have no doubt that other ladies in that section will bring the numbers up to 2000.

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