*542 CHAPTER XXXV. HOME. [September 1, 1864 - The day the 27th Indiana was mustered-out, 150 years ago today.] There is an impressive little poem extant which depicts the home coming of a company from the Civil War. The point of the poem lies in the fact (and the surprise and consternation of the people over the fact) of the reduced number of the company. The announcement that it was coming home, after its long absence, naturally awakened intense interest. A large number of people assembled at the railroad station to meet and greet it. When the train finally arrived all eyes were strained to see its members alight. At last, after some delay, one only, infirm, weather-beaten, battle-scarred soldier came out of the car and descended to the platform. That was the company! He was so changed that nobody knew him. The case of the Twenty-seventh was not so extreme as that, of course; but the regiment that came home was in striking contrast to the one that went away. The men coming at this time represented the regiment. All accounts agree in giving the date of muster-out of those who came at this time as the final termination of the existence of the Twenty-seventh. Yet there was but slightly over one hundred of them. Quartermaster Jamison, who ranked as a first lieutenant, was in command. After deducting the veterans who had been transferred to another regiment, and the officers who had been held, under the ruling heretofore mentioned, this was what remained. The muster-out occurred in the camp on the Chattahoochee, on the morning of September 1st, by a Captain Weeks, of the regular army. Pay and discharges were not given the men, however, until Louisville, Kentucky, was reached, and there the final dissolution came. After being mustered out, the men turned in their guns and equipments. In the evening they crossed to the north side of the river.
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