"And so the 5th U. S. Volunteers Infantry Regiment came to the end of its service. Regimental headquarters and the seven companies along the Platte assembled at Fort Kearney and were discharged there by General Wessells on October 11. Companies H, I, and K had to wait a few weeks longer at Fort Lyon, then marched to Leavenworth, and were the last companies of Galvanized Yankees to be mustered out, November 11, 1866."