. . o ardu-ous duty was imposed upon us,and Camp Harker is rememberedonly with pleasure. While at Nashville the Six-ty-fifth received from the state ofOhio a new stand of colors, andthe Sixty-fourth, soon afterward. The flags which had been con-fided to our keeping when we left Ohio as veterans, were fadedand tattered. They had been triumphantly borne through thefierce conflicts of the last year of the war and were pierced bymany bullets. The staff of the national flag of the Sixty-fourthhad been twice shot in two and replaced. Once
. . o ardu-ous duty was imposed upon us,and Camp Harker is rememberedonly with pleasure. While at Nashville the Six-ty-fifth received from the state ofOhio a new stand of colors, andthe Sixty-fourth, soon afterward. The flags which had been con-fided to our keeping when we left Ohio as veterans, were fadedand tattered. They had been triumphantly borne through thefierce conflicts of the last year of the war and were pierced bymany bullets. The staff of the national flag of the Sixty-fourthhad been twice shot in two and replaced. Once this had also oc-curred to the flag of the Sixty-fifth, and its last staff bore thescars of three bullets. These precious flags were sent to Colum-bus and assigned a place in the flag room of the new flags of both regiments were neatly decorated withthe names of our battles upon the stripes, in gilt letters. Thecost of this for the Sixty-fifth, amounting to S54, was paid by4* Andy Stevens, the sutler of that regiment, as a compliment tothe JEFFERSON A. HOUSEK, •.MIANY I,sIXTY-FOURTH. 724 WHO cyarriks dk shucks5 [June, Mention has been made of the colored boy, Green, whowas picked up at Alpine by Lieutenant Moores, of the Sixty-fifth, and became a fixture of the line officers mess of that regi-ment. The colored servants in the brigade were much addictedto games of hazard, and especially poker, in playing which theyspent most of their leisure hours in camp, as well us most oftheir money. Penny ante* was usually the size of the soon learned tin; mysteries of poker, and it became with him, as with the restof thedarkeys, the ruling pas-sion/1 In or under the wons, the players would oftenkeep it up the greater partof the night. One morn-ing when the officers wentto breakfast they noticedthat Green was in an un-usually happy frame ofm i n d. He s a n g a n ddanced and frisked aboutged in the dis-charge of his matutinal du-ties. The cause of hisoverfl
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