. 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 . ted, there were numerous cases of scalping of murdered womenand even children, and many of those who tried to surrender were shot down likeanimals and mutilated in a manner rivalling the brutality of the red man himself. Two squaws and five children were the only prisoners taken. About 300 Indianswere slaughtered
. 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 . ted, there were numerous cases of scalping of murdered womenand even children, and many of those who tried to surrender were shot down likeanimals and mutilated in a manner rivalling the brutality of the red man himself. Two squaws and five children were the only prisoners taken. About 300 Indianswere slaughtered, half of whom were women and children. The loss of the whites was seven killed and forty-seven wounded, seven of thelatter mortally. The ferocious acts on the part of the white soldiery at this bloody affair hadnaturally much to do with the subsequent relentless fierceness which the red tribesof the Northwest showed during the intense struggle lasting all through the lattersixties, the seventies and eighties, and ending with the battle at the Wounded Kneein 1891. The man who planned and superintended this ill-renowned and atrocious deedon the Sand River was Colonel I. M. Chivington of the First Colorado Cavalry, underwhose name it is generally known. 121 SAVED FROM STARVATION. •C\v jM*^-^^ CHARLES L. THOMAS, Sergeant Co. E, Eleventh Ohio in Philadelphia, Pa., February 12,1843. THE Powder River expedition, lasting from June20 to October 7, 1865, was planned to punishthe various Indian tribes, notably the Sioux, Com-anches. South and North Cheyennes, the Arapa-hoes, Kiowas and Apaches, who were continuallyharassing and obstructing the newly opened Platteand Arkansas overland routes. Only a month be-fore the expedition started the Indians had at-tacked a train on the Arkansas River, killed fivemen and robbed and destroyed the train. A sta-tion on the Smoky Hill route was attacked, stageswere burned and cattle and stock carried day brought news of some act
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