. Our pioneer heroes and their daring deeds . arney, or hell beat you, cried a brotherofficer, jealous for his comrades reputation. Eenewing his ef-forts, he soon passed the Indian, and was the first to reach thegoal, a half-mile from the starting point. I wouldnt have had you lose that race for a thousand dol-lars, said G-en. Atkinson. Both sides felt much interest in therace, and his fleetness of foot raised him greatly in the consider-ation of the Indians. Returning to the east, at Council Bluffs he heard of his pro-motion to the rank of captain, and at the same time received anoffer which
. Our pioneer heroes and their daring deeds . arney, or hell beat you, cried a brotherofficer, jealous for his comrades reputation. Eenewing his ef-forts, he soon passed the Indian, and was the first to reach thegoal, a half-mile from the starting point. I wouldnt have had you lose that race for a thousand dol-lars, said G-en. Atkinson. Both sides felt much interest in therace, and his fleetness of foot raised him greatly in the consider-ation of the Indians. Returning to the east, at Council Bluffs he heard of his pro-motion to the rank of captain, and at the same time received anoffer which was a sore temptation to the soldier Avith no fortunebut his good name and his sword. Struck with his manly cour-age and energy. Gen. Ashley, an eminent pioneer citizen of , proposed to fit out a trading expedition to the Yellow-stone, and place Harney in charge of it; but the soldier, bornfor the battle-field, declined the generous proffer. Arriving at St. Loiiis in October, 1825, he was ordered to re- GENERAL WILLIAM S. HARNEY. 453. port to his regiment for duty in the Creek Nation, where he re-mained until the succeeding June. Ordered to New Orleans then,he there made the acquaintance of the Duke of Saxe-Weimar; aswell as of an entirely different person, the ex-pirato Lafitte. A 454 GENERAL WILLIAM S. HARNEY. year later he proceeded to the north, where the long imprison-ment of Black Hawk was whetting his appetite for war; that no-ted chief having been captured while on a marauding expeditionwith Eed Bird, and held for trial. His movements for the next two years are of but little inter-est. True, it was at Fort Winnebago, on G-reen Bay, in 1828, thathe first met a certain second-lieutenant in the army, JeffersonDavis, with whom he formed a friendship that lasted for fiftyyears, unshaken by political differences.
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