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the Mexican captive? captain? down to see me one afternoon all on horseback. The girl was so grown? and improved that she could not have been recognized as the little emaciated wreck? I had first seen on the Arkansas. + The evening before I left for the States the Clerk of the Company with his glee club serenaded me with some excellent songs one of which was original and dedicated to me as a farewell. The contrasted conditions of my finding and leaving this man at Fort Craig is one of my little consolations. The sergeant asked permission for the men to come across the parade ground to see me off and the touch? of their earnest eyes as they said good bye remains on my memory. They are all gone where good soldiers finally go. The 1st Sergeant Hugh McQuade fell mortally wounded at the first battle of Bull Run as a captain in the 38th New York manuscript damaged the 2d Sergt became a 1st Lieut and adjutant of manuscript damaged Mexican Regiment, the 3d Sergt a Lieut manuscript damaged Confederate Service and the 4th Sergt a manuscript damaged Union Cavalry Regt. The Company C manuscript damaged of volunteers. * symbol See next page My journey up the river damaged manuscript was without noteworthy incident. symbol of a plus inside a circle See next page At Albuquerque I enjoyed for a week the hospitality of my old friend Lieut M.L. Davis of the 3d. Whilst thus in his quarters at Albuquerque there was an interesting incident not often witnessed even in those days. After dinner one evening shots and loud voices were heard in the town and soon a non commissioned officer of Davis' company came running in asking him to come to the company. I awaited his return and?