The National tribune., 1885-01-08
All we ask is our discharges
And the greenbacks that are due,
Then to Uncle Samuers service
We will bid q glad adieu,

chorus.-FarewelI Johnson you will never
Get your paws again
For if We only get our Legal Tender,
Then at home we Will remain.
hope the author of the above is living yet,
and that he will let himself be known through
the columns of THE TRIBUNE. The complaint
was not an unjust one, though the object of our
presence in Texas was not generally known to
u.s. We were not aware that We We're serving
any higher purpose than to allow contractors
to make money and Quartermas:ers to account
for stolen goods. We were mustered out at
San Antonio, Texas, November %, and COM
menced the return march to Matagorda Bay
ON the 29th or 30th.
TERRIBLE NORTHER.
At Indianola we were caught in " Norther," !"
to which, for duration and severity, the oldest
inhabitant could not find parallel. When
we lay down at night the weather was very
warm, and no preparations were made for any,
thing different, but about midnight a terrific
gale burst upon us, leyeling every tent in camp
and carrying away everything loose or nova
bic. The water in our canteens was frozen
hard, and, to add to our discomfort we had no
wood to build fires. Many were hatless and
coatless, the wind having swept such articles
into an adjacent bayou, where they were found
later frozen in the ice. The boys sought shell
ter in stores and dwellings, or in any place
where they could hide from the storm. We
it was too strongly built, SO we fired it and
warmed ourselves by the conhagratiOn. Then
we ransacked the Courthouse, carrying away
every vestige of wood that we could get hold
of. This lasted us but one day. The balance
of the time we endured the sufferings as best
we could. The storm continued three days,
then it cleared off, and the weather was warm
and pleasant again.
The steamship Prometheus arrived and,
when unloaded, we embarked upon her and
sailed around to Galveston, where large
quantity of cotton was taken on board. Then
we started for New Orleans with only one
wheel and canvas. We soon encountered a
severe storm, and were tossed about for many
hours, but finally pulled into the Mississippi
and steamed up to New Orleans, landing above
the city on the morning of Dec. "a, 1865. The
next morning we were loaded ON fine river
steamer and bade adieu to New Orleans, her
fruits and flowers, green trees and Shady lanes.
New Years day we landed at Cairo amid seet,
ice and snow-a very sudden change, indeed,
and We were i'll prepared for it. Taking the
cars we were hurled over the Illinois Central
until we struck the o. & NJ, by which we
went to st. Louis, thence over the North Mis-
souri, & Hannibal to st. Joe and Atchison.
Here our old commander, Colonel John A.
Martin, came over the river to greet u.s. What
wild cheer went up when We saw him again.
He knew of our coming, and grand reception
was prepared for US on the Kansas shore
Never before were wanderers more glad to re-
turn or friends happier to receive or more
eager to entertain. There We're but 100 of u.s.
SO our parade was not grand, but it was to be
our last, and we did our best, in return for
which we were right royalty entertained. The
next day We went to Fort Leavenw0rth, where
We were paid off and finally discharged two
days later. Thus ended the last campaign of
the 9Th Kan. The parting at the fort was like
the breaking up of a band of brothers. From
that place we scattered to every point of the
compass. never more to be reunited on earth
IS. III. LANHAM, Seneca, Kan.