. Our pioneer heroes and their daring deeds . port to his regiment for duty in the Creek Nation, where he re-mained until the succeeding June. Ordered to New Orleans then,he there made the acquaintance of the Duke of Saxe-Weimar; aswell as of an entirely different person, the ex-pirato Lafitte. A 454 GENERAL WILLIAM S. HARNEY. year later he proceeded to the north, where the long imprison-ment of Black Hawk was whetting his appetite for war; that no-ted chief having been captured while on a marauding expeditionwith Eed Bird, and held for trial. His movements for the next two years are of but li
. Our pioneer heroes and their daring deeds . port to his regiment for duty in the Creek Nation, where he re-mained until the succeeding June. Ordered to New Orleans then,he there made the acquaintance of the Duke of Saxe-Weimar; aswell as of an entirely different person, the ex-pirato Lafitte. A 454 GENERAL WILLIAM S. HARNEY. year later he proceeded to the north, where the long imprison-ment of Black Hawk was whetting his appetite for war; that no-ted chief having been captured while on a marauding expeditionwith Eed Bird, and held for trial. His movements for the next two years are of but little inter-est. True, it was at Fort Winnebago, on G-reen Bay, in 1828, thathe first met a certain second-lieutenant in the army, JeffersonDavis, with whom he formed a friendship that lasted for fiftyyears, unshaken by political ANOTHER RACE AND A COLD BATH. Stationed at Portage-des-Sioux, between the Fox and the Wis-consin, in the winter of 1829-30, he volunteered to take his com-pany to the pineries, to cut timber for a fort. They had return-ed to the camp, waiting for spring to open. The weather was bit-ter cold, and the Fox Eiver frozen over, when another excitingfoot race occurred. An Indian had broken one of the rules of thegarrison, and Capt. Harney, always a strict disciplinarian, resol-ved to administer a flogging. Believing in a fair chance forevery one, he told the Indian that if he reached a certain pointwithout being overtaken, having a start of a hundred yards, heshould escape the flogging. The race was on the ice, and both OENERAii WILLIAM S. HARNEY. 455 men, moccasined, belted and stripped for the run, set off at fullspeed, the captain swinging a cow-hide. The red man ran forhis skin, the white man for his reputation, and despite hisirreater motive, the Indian knew that the cow-hide was com-in
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