. . roverbial hospitality of the Hoosier capital during the war was notabated as long as there re-mained any soldiers uponwhom it could be had hoped to reachhome before the*holidays,but iu this we were disap-pointed. We arrived atColumbus on Christmasday and took up our quar-- in barracks at CampChase. A well remem-bered incident was a visitfrom Captain Charles , who had re-signed from the Sixty-fifthafter the Atlanta of our northwardjourney, he went to Colum-bus to see the boys. Hehad shaved
. . roverbial hospitality of the Hoosier capital during the war was notabated as long as there re-mained any soldiers uponwhom it could be had hoped to reachhome before the*holidays,but iu this we were disap-pointed. We arrived atColumbus on Christmasday and took up our quar-- in barracks at CampChase. A well remem-bered incident was a visitfrom Captain Charles , who had re-signed from the Sixty-fifthafter the Atlanta of our northwardjourney, he went to Colum-bus to see the boys. Hehad shaved off the tremen-mahlon wiKiCK, dons moustache which he -ixTY-i--IFTH. always wore in the army, and this so changed his appearance that he wanderedamong hisold comrades wholly unrecognized, until he made known hisidentity. An amusing feature of our short stay was the consumingdesire of the clothing dealers to secure the patronage of the dis-charged soldiers—and the Sixty-fourth and all the other regi-ments had the same experience that we did. The Hebrew cloth-. DISCHARGED AT LAST! 781 iers well knew hov the veterans were to get out of their army clothes, and how lavishly they spent their money. Theirrunners boarded our train fifty miles from Columbus and distrib-uted the business cards and circulars of their respective houtogether with cheap cigars and liquid refreshments. On reach-ing Columbus, they took many to restaurants and fed and winedthem, footing all the stayed with the bday and night and almostslept with them. Whenthe paymaster began tofeed the boys with green-backs, the runners steeredthem to busses that werein waiting and took themto the stores in the made up for all theiroutlay by the big pricesthey charged for their clo-dings. Kverybody Wflush jost at that time, forour pay was eight monthsin arrears. No paymasterhad visited us at New Or-leans or in Texas. Eachofficer received threemonths extra pay, whichwas probably intended asan offset to the
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