. . were tormented by a vagueapprehension that it wouldbe our hick that some*thing would happen tocause a revocation of theorder. They could scarce-ly realize or believe thatthey were really to be dis-charged ; it was too good tobe true. Not until the for-midable documents wereduly signed, sealed and de-livered were all doubtsand fears dispelled and aglorious happiness, such asthey had never beforeknown, filled all has no power todescribe our emotion >.The thirty days of heav-en, when we went homeon veteran furloug
. . were tormented by a vagueapprehension that it wouldbe our hick that some*thing would happen tocause a revocation of theorder. They could scarce-ly realize or believe thatthey were really to be dis-charged ; it was too good tobe true. Not until the for-midable documents wereduly signed, sealed and de-livered were all doubtsand fears dispelled and aglorious happiness, such asthey had never beforeknown, filled all has no power todescribe our emotion >.The thirty days of heav-en, when we went homeon veteran furlough, werefull to the brim of pleasure, and yet they were clouded by thethought of the darkness, the fierce storms of death, that we knewmust follow those days of sunshine. Xow the ordeal was past,the end had come, and the few who were left were going home to<f Dream of battlefields no mWhat a day that was in our little camp! Has any one ofthat band of war-worn veterans forgotten it? Could he forget itwere he to live a thousand years? Numerically we were but a. LEVI A. I AKIKNTER,CORPORAL, COMPANY C. SIXTY-FIFTH, i865.] LAST NIGHT IN CAM I*. 777 feeble folk. The six Sibley tents of a single company at CampBuckingham would have sheltered all that remained of theSixty-fifth. There were oik* hundred and twenty-two officersand men to answer to their names. At dress-parade that evening an order was read directing theregiment to break camp the next morning and march to Lavaca,there to embark for New Orleans In view of their experienceon the water, some of the men declared that they would rathertravel the entire distanceto New Orleans on footthan go through anotherthree days of was little sleep incamp that night. Fora while the men were busyin getting their belongingsin order for an early this was done theyabandoned themselves tomirth and jollity. Theyshouted and cheered, sangall the songs they knew,played all sorts of jokesand pranks upon one an-other, un
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