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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
The early part of the afternoon our road was through a country
which looked for all the world like an old deserted apple orchard.
About seven miles from Concho we came in sight of the beautiful
twin Mountains. Perfectly conical shaped hills so exactly alike, that it
is hard to tell one from the other.33
Just beyond this spot we felt we were safe, and giving the mules the
reins, we soon left the wagons far behind. You have no idea what a re-
lief it is after crawling along all day to start off for a good trot.
A few miles more, and we came to the Concho river, which we
forded, and drove into the Post at half past two. Captain and Mrs.
Constable84 were on their porch to welcome us, and soon made us per-
fectly at home. They are very anxious to have us stay over tomorrow
night and promise us a nice hop but knowing how crowded the Post
will be with the extra troops who will arrive in a few hours, we do not
care to remain. Waiting for him here, the Col. found orders detailing
himself and Lieut Landon on Court Martial duty at Stockton, so we
shall probably be there several days.
Concho is an 8 company Post, very pleasantly situated just above the
River of the same name, but one of the most treacherous streams in the
country. It has been known to rise 60 feet in an hour this season. This
may seem to you incredible but it is perfectly true. This is in a great
measure owing to the severe rain storms, which come so seldom at this
season that the soil hardens and does not absorb the moisture, conse-
quently it flows off till it finds an outlet in one of the few rivers, thus
pouring in as it does from all over the plains in a moment it comes
down with a great roaring noise a perfect wall of water.
An inch and a half of water often falls in these rain storms in two
hours time.
Friday evening, Augt 21st
Johnson's Station85-
There were so many things to attend to this morning, and so many
33The Twin Mountains, a few miles from Fort Concho, were a favorite spot for picnics
and outings for personnel stationed at the post. Green, The Dancing Was Lively, 96,
lo2; Carter, On the Border with Mackenzie, 36, 39, 56, 57.
84Nathaniel S. Constable, assistant quartermaster at Fort Concho, had served in the
Nineteenth Missouri Infantry in 1861-1862 and was perhaps an old friend of Colonel
Andrews. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary, I, 322.
The other members of the court were Captain Daniel Hart, Lieutenant C. N. Gray, and
Lieutenant F. A. Kendall of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, and Assistant Surgeon B. F.
Pope. See Special Orders No. 124, Headquarters, Department of Texas, San Antonio,
Texas, Aug. 1o, 1874, Adjutant General's Office, Orders, Vol. 623, RG 94, NA.
35Johnson's (or Johnston) Station was a meal-and-change station on the overland mail
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