. 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 . m i » HENRY W. B. MECHLING, I i Blaeksmith, Troop U. S. CavalryBorn at Mount Pleasant, Pa.,October 14, 1851. m % 222 — About 2 p. M. of the 26th the fire of the Indian line began to slacken. Thefire against the water carriers, however, was kept up until 3 oclock. Shortly there-after the savages abandoned th
. 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 . m i » HENRY W. B. MECHLING, I i Blaeksmith, Troop U. S. CavalryBorn at Mount Pleasant, Pa.,October 14, 1851. m % 222 — About 2 p. M. of the 26th the fire of the Indian line began to slacken. Thefire against the water carriers, however, was kept up until 3 oclock. Shortly there-after the savages abandoned their position. They fired the grass, and under thescreen of the smoke the village was abandoned. The besieged troops could seethrough the smoke the whole cavalcade moving briskly away, in almost militaryorder, towards the Big Horn range. It was now near 7 oclock and sighs of relief went up from the exhaustedand sorely-tried white warriors on the bluff. There was not the slightest doubt in. FOUR BRAVE MEN KEPT IN THEIR DANGEROUS POSITION. their minds that Custer had by this time united with Terry and that aid was the moving of the Indian village excited suspicion, and it was decided to moveinto a new position down the slope, in order to escape the stench of the decayingbodies of men and horses. The losses of the command during this day had beeneighteen killed and forty-two wounded. The evening of this never-to-be-forgotten day had a joyful surprise in store forthe men; towards 9 oclock Lieutenant De Rudio, Private ONeal, Scout Jacksonand Interpreter Girard, who had been left in the timber during the retreat from thesecond position in the valley, joined their comrades, hale and hearty, and the storiesof their thrilling adventures were listened to in wonderment. De Rudio andONeals escape was remarkable. On the 25th they concealed themselves in thebushes at the river-bank; they saw the squaws come out after the fight and multilate — 223 — the bodies of the fall
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