. . 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
. . 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 bountywhich was paid to the sol-diers who re-enlisted. There was more redtape to be unwound, but at the end of four days the exactingregulations had been complied with, the paymaster had ful-filled his mission, and we were DISCHARGED! This wordshould be in letters a foot high! Once more the fragment of the Sixty-lifth was formed inline. A farewell order from Major Smith was read and the regi-. A I. E X A N DER HICK E K SON,, COMPANY K; COLOR-BEARER, V- FIFTH. 7*2 OR OHIO. [December, ment broke ranks for the last time—never again to fall in forroll-call or battle charge! Tender and affectionate farewells wereexchanged between the members of that band of brothers,1linked together by ties Stronger than any others on earth exceptthose of family and kin. Then came the separation, many ofthose comrades no more to meet in this world. A few we were clasped in the \ ed ones. That w;t II tw Year for the sun -ty-fifth. The Sixty-fourth wasmustered out on the 3rd ofDecember—one hundredand forty-two officers andmen present. The occa-sion was painted byscenes of tempestuous hi-larity similar in all respectsto those which enlivenedthe camp of the Sixty-fifthThenext day the regimentmarched to Lavaca, andloaded its baggage onlighters for transportationto Indianola. While 1was going on old Happy-Jack, the tatt
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