“It surely was one hell of a run, and I was glad to have been along for the ride to lead so many great men, but I was very happy it was finally over, so that we could go back home on our horses and mules and take back some of our wagons to our families and farms,” said Colonel Kevin Gerard Waguespack, from Vacherie, near Thibodeaux, home today to the Nicholls State Colonels, the mascot named in his honor, sixty miles west of New Orleans, Louisiana, leader of the Vacherie Valkyries of the Louisiana Tigers 9th Regiment, termed by Yankee General William T. Sherman as “godawful bats out of Hell...none of whom one wished to see on the battlefield, or anywhere else for that matter...believe you me”, who would soon upon his arrival back in Baton Rouge after the war a few years later, in “one aft
