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THE WAR IN MISSOURI 77
season of the year. Before leaving winter quarters
the men were ordered to prepare ten days' rations,
and when we overtook the command at Fayetteville
they had been out nearly that length of time, and
rations were already growing scarce. We furloughed
men and a number of recruits who had accompanied
us to join the command were not here
to draw or prepare rations, and our only chance for
a living was to share rations with our comrades, who
were as liberal and generous as they could be, but
they were not able to do much.
From the time I overtook the command until we
got back to winter quarters was about ten days, and
the few days we were in winter quarters were spent
in preparing to cross the Mississippi River. For
the first four or five days I managed to procure, on
an average, about one biscuit per day; for the other
five days we were fortunate to get anything at all
to eat, and usually got nothing. We were in the
snow for two days and nights, and in a cold, drenching
rain one night. On the 7th it was impossible
to get a drink of water, to say nothing of food and
sleep, and from the time the firing began in the morning
until the next morning we could get no water,
although we were intensely thirsty. While at winter
quarters I had a chill, and started down grade in
health, a decline in physical condition that continued
until I was apparently nearly dead.
In December parts of our cavalry regiments went
with Colonel James McIntosh into the Indian Territory
to suppress Hopothlaohola, an ex-chief of
the Creek nation, who, with a considerable band of
disaffected followers, was making trouble, and part
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Barron, S. B. The Lone Star defenders; a chronicle of the Third Texas cavalry, Ross brigade, book, 1908; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth27719/m1/85/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.