. 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 . FRANK WEST, First Lieutenant, eth U. S. in Mohawk, N. Y., < LlI X oo Q < -294 — upon the field. A severe hail-storm set in, lasting four hours, which covered thetrail so completely as to prevent pursuit. The troops remained two days near thescene of the fight. Litters were made and the w
. 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 . FRANK WEST, First Lieutenant, eth U. S. in Mohawk, N. Y., < LlI X oo Q < -294 — upon the field. A severe hail-storm set in, lasting four hours, which covered thetrail so completely as to prevent pursuit. The troops remained two days near thescene of the fight. Litters were made and the wounded transported by hand eightmiles back to the open country, where ambulances could reach them. Seventy horses and much camp plunder were captured. Among the dead weretwo of the renegade scouts who mutinied in the Cibicu fight. The troops lost oneman killed, seven wounded, and two officers of the Third Cavalry, LieutenantsConverse and Morgan, wounded. The rngged nature of this part of the MongoUonMountains prevented the hostiles from being again brought to bay, and they escapedto the various Indian camps about the reservations where they were secreted bytheir kindred. CHASING GERONIMO AND NATCHEZ T^HE surrender of Geronimo and Natchez, the leading chiefs of the Apaches, con-^ eluded the campaign of 1886. It marked the closing of a long a
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