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CHAPTER XIX. 



FROM FATHIGARH TO CAWNPORE. 

 JANUARY-MARCH 1858. 



After a night marcli of twenty-five miles Hodson 

 and his sowars joined Sir Colin Campbell on January 

 4 at Fathigarh, which was found abandoned as he 

 had foretold. " Our troops," he writes, " are all 

 concentrating here, not a shot having been fired." 

 Three days later Seaton's column marched into 

 camp. After more than three months of detach- 

 ment duty. Cough's squadron had now rejoined its 

 regimental headquarters, while its gallant leader 

 returned, not without some natural regret, to his 

 old position as adjutant of Hodson's Horse. Hodson 

 was greatly pleased with the smart appearance of 

 the squadron, " and gave us," says Cough, " consider- 

 able kudos for our maintenance of the grood name of 

 the regiment, accounts of which he had heard from 

 the commander-in-chief. He had been a little 

 annoyed with me for not having kept him more 

 fully acquainted with all we had been doing, and 

 I had been slack in sending in the usual official 

 information ; but I often had not the means of so 

 doing, and even in those days I fear I was not 

 over-fond of 'writing.' However, anj^ little feeling 



