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eral. From this time until the Fourth Missouri 

 cavalry was mustered out of service, our head- 

 quarters were in the immediate neighborhood of 

 Memphis, and our life was much more active than 

 it had been at Union City. 



Not very much is to be said for Max during 

 this time, except in connection with the Sturgis 

 expedition, beyond the fact that we lay long in 

 the immediate vicinity of the race-course, which 

 we repaired and used faithfully, and, so far as he 

 was concerned, with eminent success. The more 

 frequent necessity for duty, the great labor of 

 remounting, reorganizing, and redrilling the com- 

 mand, united with the greater publicity of our po- 

 sition to lay some restraint on our mode of life, 

 and to make our conduct more circumspect. Still 

 we were not miserable, and the neighborhood of 

 a large town has, to a well-regulated headquarters' 

 mess, its compensations as well as its drawbacks. 



Sturgis's expedition to Guntown and back — 

 especially back — has passed into history, and 

 its unwritten memories will always remain with 

 those who took part in it. 



