. Indian history for young folks . d. Two othercharges were made and repelled during the day, and at nightfall a heavyrain set in. Every horse and mule had been killed by the enemys Beecher and five others had been killed or mortally wounded,and seventeen were wounded severely. Fort Wallace, the nearest point from which succor could arrive, wasone hundred miles away. Forsyths men were without provisions, andsurrounded by nine hundred well-armed warriors. A well was dug, thedead animals flesh was cut into strips for food, the line was strengthenedwith saddles and dead animals, a
. Indian history for young folks . d. Two othercharges were made and repelled during the day, and at nightfall a heavyrain set in. Every horse and mule had been killed by the enemys Beecher and five others had been killed or mortally wounded,and seventeen were wounded severely. Fort Wallace, the nearest point from which succor could arrive, wasone hundred miles away. Forsyths men were without provisions, andsurrounded by nine hundred well-armed warriors. A well was dug, thedead animals flesh was cut into strips for food, the line was strengthenedwith saddles and dead animals, and two men were despatched at nightfallthrough the enemys lines to Fort Wallace. Day after day the heroicband sustained the steady fire of the Indians, but by the fifth day thesuffering from hunger, as the meat could no longer be eaten, was this time the Indians began to disappear, and by the seventh day allhad left, but the beleaguered force was too weak to move. At last, on themorning of the ninth day, succor INDIAN WARS (1862-1877). 445 The Indians encountered were Northern Cheyennes, Brule and Oga-lalla Sioux, and Dog Soldiers, the banditti of the plains. Their lossis said to have been thirty-five killed and one hundred wounded. Notwithstanding the provisions of the treatymade with the Sioux andthe Northern Cheyennes by the Peace Commissioners in 1868, securing tothem the right of hunting on their old territory, these Indians were orderedby General Sheridan to give up their hunting-grounds and to go upon a
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