. . tour dreary months. Wetook it easy on the march, reaching Lavaca in the afternoon There was no boat readyfor us. but we had madstart for home and nobodycomplained; grumblingwould not expedite thejourney. After lying a day atLavaca, we boarded sail-boats and landed at Indian-ola. Here we stayed sixlelayed by a fierceand protracted norther,during which it was notpossible for steamers topass the bar. All werewilling to wait, for notxwanted to go to sea in suchweather. Oysters werein season and were abund-ant at Indiauola. Moneywas e
. . tour dreary months. Wetook it easy on the march, reaching Lavaca in the afternoon There was no boat readyfor us. but we had madstart for home and nobodycomplained; grumblingwould not expedite thejourney. After lying a day atLavaca, we boarded sail-boats and landed at Indian-ola. Here we stayed sixlelayed by a fierceand protracted norther,during which it was notpossible for steamers topass the bar. All werewilling to wait, for notxwanted to go to sea in suchweather. Oysters werein season and were abund-ant at Indiauola. Moneywas extreme!) foi we had not paymas- ter for many moons, butthose who could not buy oysters fished them up from the bay inlarge quantities, and during our stay they formed a large part ofour daily food. Two or three officers might be named who ateso many at a sitting that the surgeons had as much as they coulddo to bring them through the gripings of a prodigious colic. At length the storm abated and th tppa- hannock arrived from New Orleans, with a full cargo. The. OMIANY (i, SIXTY-FIFTH. < I NEW ORL; 779 were informed that as soon as the boat was unloadedthey could go on board and start at once. Several reginnwere ready and anxious u it was decided that the Sixty- fifth Ohio and Thirteenth Wisconsin had the right of way, theaccommodations of the steamer being sufficient for those two reg-iments. The men, some thive hundred in all, took off theircoats and snatched the freight out of that vessel with a sudden-S that was almost amazing. They were a lively lot of roust-abouts and dockwallop-They worked all nightby reliefs, and by daylight thecargo wras on shore. Then the work of stow-age began. We had a largeand very miscellaneous assort-ment of baggage—barrels,boxes and bags of pecans,enormous cattle horns, and amenagerie of horned toads,mocking-birds and other dele-gates from the Texas deWe had a fairly comfortabletrip across the gulf. Therewas a good deal of seasick-ness
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