The adventures of "Antelope Bill" in the Indian war of 1862 . d C of the FifthMinnesota Infantry after the Minnesota Massa*ere were ordered south and joined their regi-ment near Oxford, Miss, on the 12th day ofDecember, 1SG2 and served wTith the regimentto the end ol the war. — 86 — Incidents. Fool? crazy or brave? Which? In the year 1868 the Bloods were verytroublesome. They would pick off men on theFort Benton & Helena Road and often attacklittle outfiis. While we were in camp on Sunriver we had a little tussel with them. Theyc ime within twenty rods of us and commencedto drive off our horse
The adventures of "Antelope Bill" in the Indian war of 1862 . d C of the FifthMinnesota Infantry after the Minnesota Massa*ere were ordered south and joined their regi-ment near Oxford, Miss, on the 12th day ofDecember, 1SG2 and served wTith the regimentto the end ol the war. — 86 — Incidents. Fool? crazy or brave? Which? In the year 1868 the Bloods were verytroublesome. They would pick off men on theFort Benton & Helena Road and often attacklittle outfiis. While we were in camp on Sunriver we had a little tussel with them. Theyc ime within twenty rods of us and commencedto drive off our horses. A few shots were ex-changed and one of our boys received a slightwound on the muscle of his arm. None werekilled. The enemy captured our horses. OneFrank Murphy purchased a fine mare in Helenawhich he prized so highly he talked of nothingelse; the boys teased him, remarking 4she isno good. The Indians took his mare withthe rest. The poor fellow was nearly his mother been taken he could have ex-pressed no deeper sorrow. The boys told him. — si — to strike out and recover her, They talkedto him till he said he thought he could. Inthe night he disappeared no one knewwhere. Had the imbecile gone to try to findtheir camp, and get his horse back? We re-mained in camp about four days; on the thirdday he made his appearance. He was a terri-ble sight to behold. He said I took a littlefood for lunch and after you retired for thenight I started north for the British lines; Itravelled ail night, struck a trail followed it upand a camp was in sight. This was, I judge,about 9 oclock A. M. About half a milefrom camp I saw a number of ponies. Wentup among them and saw two Indian boys dri-ving some towards the camp. I saw mine inthe herd; it had no picket line on so I couldnot catch it easily. I had a halter along, butcould do nothing as I had no horse to put it out rushed a hundred bucks and sur-rounded me. They took me to camp. I toldthem I wanted my horse; they l
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