. History of Fourteenth Illinois cavalry and the brigades to which it belonged. w, Indian marksmen could have finesport in a shooting match, which would not have leftone of our exposed charging line alive. A better battleground for Indian fighting Indian sagacity could nothave selected. The key to the situation was the suc-cessful taking in of the Indian picket, and that too withoutthe report of our own or the enemys guns sufficientlyloud to be heard in camp. We have no account of theplan of this feat, nor even the names of the men nor thename of the officer who led. Of this we are very sorry.
. History of Fourteenth Illinois cavalry and the brigades to which it belonged. w, Indian marksmen could have finesport in a shooting match, which would not have leftone of our exposed charging line alive. A better battleground for Indian fighting Indian sagacity could nothave selected. The key to the situation was the suc-cessful taking in of the Indian picket, and that too withoutthe report of our own or the enemys guns sufficientlyloud to be heard in camp. We have no account of theplan of this feat, nor even the names of the men nor thename of the officer who led. Of this we are very we know, that not a man of the six sentinels at thepost escaped, or in any manner gave warning. It was a re-markable achievement. There yet remained great dangerthat they would receive a signal of our approach. Wenow pressed forward with speed and in perfect silenceuntil near the point where we could be seen from thecamp. We were guided over the mountains and per-fectly informed of the whole situation in and around thecamp by a good union man, Captain Bushfield, captain. ^IRST LIEUT. AND ACTING ADJT. ISAAC II. ALLEN. FOURTEENTH ILLINOIS CAVALRY. 149 of a company of union home guards. Through thismans information the plans were all laid. The command was divided into two forces. A col-umn was formed to charge into the camp, composed ofCompany A, commanded by Lieutenant Horace Cap-ron, to lead, and Company 4T, under Captain Hagaman,to follow A and Company C, commanded byCaptain Dent, to follow I, Major Davidson hav-ing command. Major Quigg was with and incommand of that portion of his battalion thatwas in this column, I and C; the other force—theremainder of the regiment, under the command of theirofficers—was directed to charge upon the thicket on thewest side. This was none less dangerous than was thecharge into camp, as it would be made over open ground,and in case the Indians had received warning and hadfallen back into the thicket, it was far more then,
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