Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times.
The 4th infantry went into camp at Salubrity in the month of May, 1844, with instructions, as I have said, to await further orders.

At first, officers and men occupied ordinary tents.

As the summer heat increased these were covered by sheds to break the rays of the sun.

The summer was whiled away in social enjoyments among the officers, in visiting those stationed at, and near, Fort Jessup, twenty-five miles away, visiting the planters on the Red River, and the citizens of Natchitoches and Grand Ecore.