. 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 . heir trail, but the avenger was anold and resourceful Indian fighter. On the morning of the third day Sergeant Glover and his men came up with theIndians. The command was at once deployed for advance. — 264 ~ We were then in the Little Big Horn Mountains, said Sergeant Glover. Iadvanced but a short distance, when
. 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 . heir trail, but the avenger was anold and resourceful Indian fighter. On the morning of the third day Sergeant Glover and his men came up with theIndians. The command was at once deployed for advance. — 264 ~ We were then in the Little Big Horn Mountains, said Sergeant Glover. Iadvanced but a short distance, when I saw two Indians standing on a rock silhouettedagainst the background of sky, signaling with the white flag. I advanced andaccepted their surrender. Turning, I heard the sound of furious firing in the two Indians had been joined by others and treacherously opened an attack asmy men were leaning quietly on their arms. Not an Indian got away. We cap-tured them all, and under a strong guard I took them back to the post. They weretried and convicted of murder, but cheated the executioner, for, Indian-like, they allhanged themselves in the jail at Miles City. Thus ended the last chapter in the history of Little Wolfs band of Cheyennes. THE SURRENDER OF RAIN-IN-THE-FACE. A NUMBER of Indian Chiefs, among others Broad Tail,Kicking Bear, Spotted Eagle and the noted Rain-in-the-Face, surrendered to the military authorities in subjugation of these notables and their tribesmen wasaccomplished by a series of successful military operationsin conjunction with the telegraph and telephone. The sol-dier and his rifle caused fear and respect; the appliance ofmodern invention awakened awe and reverence, mingledwith terror, in the Indian. The use of the telephone and telegraph to bewilder thesimple-minded savages was a clever piece of strategy onthe part of the military authorities at Fort Keogh, Mon-tana, and the manner in which it was accomplished formsthe text of a rather a
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