70 WHIP AND SPUR. 



wonderful Swiss "Retreat" must ring to this day 

 in the memory of every man of the regiment 

 whose thoughts turn again to the romantic cam- 

 paign of South Missouri. What with other bu- 

 glers was a matter of routine training was with 

 him an inspiration. All knew well enough the 

 meaning of the commands that the company 

 trumpets stammered or blared forth; but when 

 they rang from "VVettstein's horn, they earned 

 with them a vim and energy that secured their 

 prompt execution ; and his note in the wild Ozark 

 Hills would mark the headquarters of the " Vierte 

 Missouri " for miles around. From a hill-top, half 

 a mile in advance of the marching command, I 

 have turned the regiment into its camping-ground 

 and dismounted it in perfect order by the melo- 

 dious telegraphy of Wettstein's brazen lips alone. 

 That other chief attribute of his, Klitschka, 

 his little beast, stayed longer with me than his 

 bugle did, and is hardly less identified with the 

 varied reminiscences of my army life. I bought 

 her, as a prize, with the original mount of the 

 regiment, in Fremont's time, and was mildly 



