Wild Life on the Plains and Horrors of Indian Warfare
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Td. FAOB. to Kidder and Party Disaffection A mong the Soldiers-T hirteen A ttempi to Desert Seven Mounted npon Fleet Horses Succeed in Bscaping Six XJ umonnted are Captured After a Brief Skirmish- AC onspiracy A mong the Men lat Required eyery Officer to Stand Guard No Attempt at Desertion ever Attempted Afterward Comstock on the Fate of Kidder- Gentle men, He ll be Lucky if He Gits Throns all Rig...
MoreTd. FAOB. to Kidder and Party Disaffection A mong the Soldiers-T hirteen A ttempi to Desert Seven Mounted npon Fleet Horses Succeed in Bscaping Six XJ umonnted are Captured After a Brief Skirmish- AC onspiracy A mong the Men lat Required eyery Officer to Stand Guard No Attempt at Desertion ever Attempted Afterward Comstock on the Fate of Kidder- Gentle men, He ll be Lucky if He Gits Throns all Right, etc. 97-108 CHAPTER IX. A irival at Ft. Wallace The Fort had l)een Attacked Twice Within a Few Days Incidents of the Fight An Indian Riding at full Speed, Snatdies the Body of a Boy Bugler and Scalps it and Dashes the Body to the Ground Indians Routed and Driven from the Field--S hort of Rations Rotten Bacon and Hard Bread That was NoB etter Cholera A mong the Troops Custer Decides to Open tbe Way to Ft. Harker to Obtain Supplies Selecting a Hundred Men, with Capt. Hamilton in Command, We Began our Ride Eastward Dug Outs How and Why Used No Signs of Indians until Downer Station is Reached AS mall Party of Lagging Troops Attacked by Twenty-five or so Indians and Two Men Killed Rapid Marches One Hundred and Fifty Miles in Fifty-five Hours Arrangements Made for Supplies Hampered by Instructions from Washington The Great Event in Indian A ffiairs The Fort Phil Kearney Massacre Out of a Detachment of Troops, Numbering Ninetyfour Persons, not One Escapes, etc. 109-119 CHAPTER X. Whiterof 67and 68 Gen. Sully in Command of the Upper Arkansas The Indians Elude the Military but Attack the Settlers Frequent Massacres of Frontiersmen Tabulated Statement of One Hundred and Fifty-four Murders, Sixteen Wounded, Fortyone Scalped Fourteen Women Outraged Four Women, Twentyfour Children Captured Six Hundred and Sixty-nine Horses and Mules Stolen Nine Hundred and Fifty-eight Cattle Dog Soldiers Cren. Sheridan Decides to Employ Frontiersmen Gen. Sandy Forsythe to Command Thirty Men
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