StNicholas [serial] . FAMOUS INDIAN CHIEFS BY MAJOR-GENERAL O. O. HOWARD II. BILLY BOWLEGS Watervliet Arsenal, near Troy, N. Y., is oneof the places where Uncle Sam keeps his gunsand powder, and as I was an ordnance officer, Iwas on duty at that post when word came to mefrom Washington that the Indian chief, BillyBowlegs, had broken out from the Everglades ofFlorida to go on the war-path, and that UncleSam wanted me to stop looking after guns inWatervliet, and to look after them in the good-by to my little boy, I told hismother, his grandmother, and my brother Charlesto be sure an
StNicholas [serial] . FAMOUS INDIAN CHIEFS BY MAJOR-GENERAL O. O. HOWARD II. BILLY BOWLEGS Watervliet Arsenal, near Troy, N. Y., is oneof the places where Uncle Sam keeps his gunsand powder, and as I was an ordnance officer, Iwas on duty at that post when word came to mefrom Washington that the Indian chief, BillyBowlegs, had broken out from the Everglades ofFlorida to go on the war-path, and that UncleSam wanted me to stop looking after guns inWatervliet, and to look after them in the good-by to my little boy, I told hismother, his grandmother, and my brother Charlesto be sure and remind Santa Claus not to for-get him on December 25th, and started for theSouth. In about eighteen days, traveling by train, stage-coach, steamer, and rowboat, we reached FortMeyers. Here I met my superior, General Har-ney, and learned something of the fierce Indianleader, Billy Bowlegs, who kept a large part ofFlorida in a state of alarm for over a year. You remember the old chief of the SeminoleIndians, Micanopy,
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