. Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars . e prison at Alcatraz. RESCUING THE GERMAINE GIRLS M^ ANY of the Indian uprisings were like theconvulsive struggles of a dying race, thelast efforts of a people doomed to final extinc-tion against the irresistible and relentlessmarch and progress of civilization. The whitemans civilization was as ruthless in the r
. Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars . e prison at Alcatraz. RESCUING THE GERMAINE GIRLS M^ ANY of the Indian uprisings were like theconvulsive struggles of a dying race, thelast efforts of a people doomed to final extinc-tion against the irresistible and relentlessmarch and progress of civilization. The whitemans civilization was as ruthless in the re-moval of all obstacles and the exterminationof every race or nation that proved a hindranceas the cruelty and barbarism of the savagehimself, differing only in the methods. TheIndian exerted his brute force, the white manhis intellectual superiority; the result could bebut fatal to the former. A characteristic uprising of this kind wasplanned and inaugurated by the SouthernGneyennes, Kiowas, Arapahoes and other bands in the Indian Territory in 1874,and the first serious occurrences took place in June of that year, with Texas as themain scene of action. The events which led up to and culminated in the outbreakwere accumulative rather than of one single and definite FRANK D. BALDWIN, First Lieutenant, Fiftli Infantry. Higiipst rank attained: Colonel 27tli U. S. in Washtenaw County, Mich., June 2H, 1842. — 180 — Civilization was making rapid progress; the white man was penetrating the for-ests, colonizing at streams and waters and covering the plains and prairies. Theestablishment of military posts, trading stations and settlements, the building ofrailroads, gradually changed the character of whole sections of the was this accomplished with consideration or regard for the Indians feeling ofpiety and respect. Places of ancient worship were demolished, to be replaced, per-haps, by a prosaic railway station; old burying grounds, regarded by
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