. 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 . eantime, three others rushed down the side of the can-yon, with the intention of cutting me off from the remainder of the detail. One ofthem stopped long enough to shoot at me, but missed. I returned his fire, and wasfortunate enough to bring him down also. The other two concealed themselves be-hind rocks, direct
. 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 . eantime, three others rushed down the side of the can-yon, with the intention of cutting me off from the remainder of the detail. One ofthem stopped long enough to shoot at me, but missed. I returned his fire, and wasfortunate enough to bring him down also. The other two concealed themselves be-hind rocks, directly in front of me. I turned my horse loose and drove it ahead todraw the fire of the Indians. Then I moved about thirty or forty yards to the rightof my horse, making as little noise as possible. When within about thirty yards ofthe redskins they came crawling around the rocks to the side where they were ex-posed to me, and just as soon as they discovered me I fired, killing one; the otherjumped into a ravine and I saw him no more. I kept on and rejoined the detail,which was waiting at the mouth of the canyon. Sergeant Newman and Privates Nihill and Glynn were awarded the Medal ofHonor for the active part they took in this action. — 167 WHERE THE COMANCHES WERE PUT TO FLIGHT. DAVID LAEKIN, Farrier, Co. F. 1th U. S. Cavalry. ALTHOUGH no general Indian war took place in 1872,there were several expeditions and crusades againstbands of savages. The number of murders, outrages anddepredations by small parties of redskins was greater thanthe preceding year, especially in Kansas, Nebraska, Min-nesota and Dakota, and those states where the buildingof railroads marked the advent of a new era of civiliza-tion. About this time the Northern Pacific Railroad hadreached the Missouri River, and the surveyors were atwork as far west as the Powder River, 200 miles beyondthe Missouri. The Santa Fe and the Southern PacificRailroads were both in course of construction, and smallgroups of surveyo
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