Band Of Brothers

**UPDATES** 9th Miss. Cavalry and 5th State Troops

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	Headquarters Maury's Division,
	Six miles east of Meridian, Miss., May 7, 1865

	Soldiers:
	Our last march is almost ended. To-morrow we shall
	lay down the arms which we have borne for four years to
	defend our rights--to win our liberties. We have borne
	them with honor, and we only now surrender to the
	overwhelming power of the enemy, which has rendered
	further resistance hopeless and mischievous to our own
	people and cause. But we shall never forget the noble
	comrades who have stood shoulder to shoulder with us until
	now, the noble dead who have been martyred, the noble
	Southern women who have been wronged and are
	unavenged, or the noble principles for which we have
	fought. Conscious that we have played our part like men,
	confident of the righteousness of our cause, without
	regret for our past action and without despair of the
	future, let us to-morrow, with the dignity of the
	veterans who are the last to surrender, perform the duty
	which has been assigned to us.

	Dabney H. Maury,
	Major -General, Confederate Army
	From: O.R. Series I--Volume XLIX/2 [S# 104]

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