We were occupying ceased to afford comfortable quarters; and "further orders" not reaching us, we began to look about to remedy the hardship.

Men were put to work getting out timber to build huts, and in a very short time all were comfortably housed--privates as well as officers.

The outlay by the government in accomplishing this was nothing, or nearly nothing.

The winter was spent more agreeably than the summer had been.

There were occasional parties given by the planters along the "coast"-- as the bottom lands on the Red River were called.