The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-29

missed. The biggest part of the congre-
CATION ran. 1t proved to be false alarm,
| and the boys soon returned and the little
| Chaplain went on with his sermon.
| About Feb. l n detachment of our regi-
ment was sent 30 miles south, TO a
! little town called Lockhart, to maintain
! order while the civil authorities were try
| ing man for murder. The country is
/ broken between Austin and Lockhart.
remember somewhere between the two
towns the water came trucking down off
the mountain, and fell ON a rock about as
high as a mans shoulders. Where the
water struck the rock there was a little
depression worn in the rock sufficiently
large to dip up n drink with a tin cup.
Just rs we were becoming acquainted
around Lockhart, we We're ordered TO Aus
tin to prepare to be mustered-out
Feb. Is, 1866, we were mustered out
and started for home. We had to walk
80 miles to get to a little narrow
gagged road. the engines on which looked
like little sausage grinders. We rode on
fat cars. The little engine would puff,
whcezc along for little while, and then
stall. We boys would jump off and gather
fence rails and help fire up, and then push
on the cars until we got them started, and
then jump on.
When we reached Houston we secured
better conveyance, and soon arrived at
Galveston.
We stayed two or three days at Calves
ton, and then took ship for New Or
leans. At New Orleans we left the ship,
and took a steamboat for Cairo, Ill.
At Cairo we took the cars for Indianap0-
lis. We remained at Indianapolis until
we drew our pay and got transportation
for home.
On March IL, 1866. I, with several of
my comrades, took what was then called
the Bee Line Railroad and went to Nor
cnIlnl pnrLyNr1 whore
put up for the night at what was called
'Whitehcads Hotel The next morning
the ground was covered with snow, the
first snow | had seen during the Winter.
| walked to John Mack's, south of Fair
view, where | took dinner, after which his
son Charles, who was member of my
company, but had been sent home on fur
Tough, and was ordered not to return to
the regiment hitched up and took me
home. four miles north of Dunkirk, Ind.
At that time Dunkirk did not contain
dozen houses. with no railroad. Now
Dunkirk is quite a little city.
| have given an abridged history, omit
ting scores of expeditions and skirmishes
and thousands of incidents that would be
of interest to many. have omitted all the
ridiculous and laughable incidents which
were common to all regiments. | have
said but little about the suffering, hard
ships. and hunger we endured. While /,
Win OiNcIS. were ptIlhltttI ~ CoIic lOHlt
and meet friends, | remember those brave
boys we left behind, who died in hospital,
in battle. and in prison: some were not
even buried. We left those who fell in
the "holy cause" in Kentucky, Tennessee,
Mississippi. Missouri, Indian Territory,
Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, and Texas.
Some died in that awful prison at Ander-
and some lie at the bottom of the
Mississippi River. 4
The eth Ind. Cav. was good regiment
and did gallant service. | am proud to
have been member of the regiment.
There are a number of comrades who
could give great deal better and more
history than | have, but they
have not done it. My facilities for know
ing all that happened in the regiment are
limited | lost my diary OF the steam |
boat coming home. have been com
PEELED to rely on memory. l have got a |
few dates from the history of the regi- |
ment, written many years ago, by Com |
rade Thomas s. Cogley. 20
The writer of this little sketch was |
born in Clinton County, Ohio, in 1913. and |
moved to Blackford County, Ind, i'll 1876, |
where he has resided ever since.
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