. 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 . sent to1)6 watered should have returned, but through an error all got out at once. The daring soldier who during the darkness of the night had stealthily scaled thesteep and pathless mountain side and groped his w^ay out to the plain where hiscommand was surrounded by several hundred blood-thirsty savages, had me
. 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 . sent to1)6 watered should have returned, but through an error all got out at once. The daring soldier who during the darkness of the night had stealthily scaled thesteep and pathless mountain side and groped his w^ay out to the plain where hiscommand was surrounded by several hundred blood-thirsty savages, had meanwhilereached the post and related the events which had just taken place. There being no mounted troops at Buchanan, an order was at once sent to FortBreckenridge to dispatch two troops of cavalry to the assistance of Bascoms Surgeon B. J. D. Irwin, who was to accompany them at once, volunteeredto take a small but picked number of men through the Apache Pass direct to FortBreckenridge, about 100 miles north of Buchanan. Fourteen reliable infantrymenwere selected for the hazardous service. James Graydon, a discharged soldier,who was ever ready for an adventure, joined the party, which, mounted on out in the face of a heavy snow-storm on Feliruary THEY WERE TIED TO THE WHEELS AND BURNEDTO DEATH. — no — As 100 miles had to be traversed to reach the pass, two days were required toaccomplish the weary and fatiguing journey, sixty-five miles of which—to DragoonSpring—were made during the first days march. On the Second day, February 14,while crossing the plain west of the Chiricahua range, a party of Indians, evidentlyreturning from a raid, were discovered driving a herd of cattle and horses. Theywere pursued, and after a long and exciting chase, including a running fight ofseveral miles, abandoned the stock, consisting of some thirty ponies and forty cattle,all of which, with three Indian warriors, were captured. Knowing that Bascomsparty was
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