March 11, 1863. D. B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell from camp at Providence, La.: "You may rest assured Brother that I will never turn my back to the enemies of our country. I enlisted as a private and sought no higher position but our Lt. Col?.appointed me colour bearer. I felt proud of the confidence he placed in me but would rather he had not appointed me to that position yet inasmuch as it his pleasure I would not express the least wish or word to the contrary, and I know that I will never disgrace that proud emblem of liberty? "?we are here inactive and are as the saying is spoiling for a fight, we are anxious to be doing something that will tell towards crushing out this rebelion, we have never yet as a regiment had the privelege of facing the foe? "I shall feel more reconciled to the fate that may await me as a soldier, since I have the assureance that in case I fall you will attend to the wants of my family - yet I cannot think otherwise than that I shall return to them - I only fear that the 95th regt. will never have an opportunity to prove their superiority to their number of rebles?" Topics: Civil War; New York State Agricultural Society; New York State Legislature: letters from constituents; Cornell Public Library; agriculture Personal names: Cornell, D.B.; Tarbell, D.; Schuyler, G.W.; Terrey, D.; Curtiss, George; Pew, W.P.; Cornell, E.B.; Chester, E.W. Geography: Ithaca, N.Y.