. . erly direction and established our campnear Placidor creek, about eight miles from the Guadalupe were on a seemingly boundless, arid plain, with, for our use, only the nauseous, tepid __ water of the sluggishstream, in which thousandsof cattle daily slaked theirthirst; and the stragglingtrees that fringed its banks,for fuel. The prairie wascompletely barren of timber,except narrow belts alongthe water courses. Beforea great while all our woodhad to be hauled in wagonsa long distance. Our firsthabitat was the identicalspo
. . erly direction and established our campnear Placidor creek, about eight miles from the Guadalupe were on a seemingly boundless, arid plain, with, for our use, only the nauseous, tepid __ water of the sluggishstream, in which thousandsof cattle daily slaked theirthirst; and the stragglingtrees that fringed its banks,for fuel. The prairie wascompletely barren of timber,except narrow belts alongthe water courses. Beforea great while all our woodhad to be hauled in wagonsa long distance. Our firsthabitat was the identicalspot which was used as acamp during the war withMexico. A Mississippiregiment commanded b yColonel Jefferson Davis layhere for a time, while enroute to Mexico, in was then called CampIrwin, and General Con-rad, commanding our divi-sion, directed that the name be retained during our occupancy. The two succeeding chapters will tell something of our lifein that desolate region, while we impatiently waited for the orderthat was so long in coming—to go M I L A N 11A K E K ,CORPORAL, COMPANY A, SIXTY-FIFTH. Died at Chattanooga, Tennessee,May 26th, 1865. [August, CHAPTER LXVI ON THH TEXAS PLAINS. Railroad Building Under a Broiling sun -Im. Sixty-fourthStays Two Months Longer at New Orle/ »inn the Brigade in September—Enlarging Our Knowledge of Nat-ural History—Mosquitoes by Millions—Tarantulas, Centj- peds, Coyotes and HORNED Toads INCE OF 1k< i Fresh Beef Galor WE SPENT four sizzling months in Texas. Timedragged heavily, and the days and weeks were unut-terably dreary. We lay near the line of a so-calledrailroad from Lavaca to Victoria, the latter, abouttwelve miles beyond Camp Irwin, being the headquarters of thedivision. The railroad, most of which was destroyed during thewar, had been but a wretched affair at its best. It was built ofthe primitive strap rails, spiked upon wooden stringers. Thetrack had been laid upon the surface, with very little atte
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