. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ■ -4 W. ■ i , ■. RED MEN WHO SUFFERED IN SILENCE In modern warfare the American Indian seems somehow to be entirely out of place. We think of him with the tomahawk and scalping-knife and have difficulty in conceiving him in the ranks, drilling, doing police duty, and so on. Yet more than three thousand Indianswere enlisted in the Federal army. The Confederates enlisted many more in Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas. In the Federal armythe red men were used as advance sharpshooters and rendered meritorious service. This photograph shows
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ■ -4 W. ■ i , ■. RED MEN WHO SUFFERED IN SILENCE In modern warfare the American Indian seems somehow to be entirely out of place. We think of him with the tomahawk and scalping-knife and have difficulty in conceiving him in the ranks, drilling, doing police duty, and so on. Yet more than three thousand Indianswere enlisted in the Federal army. The Confederates enlisted many more in Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas. In the Federal armythe red men were used as advance sharpshooters and rendered meritorious service. This photograph shows some of the woundedIndian sharpshooters on Maryes Heights after the second battle of Fredericksburg. A hospital orderly is attending to the wantsof the one on the left-hand page, and the wounds of the others have been dressed. In the entry of John L. Maryes handsome mansionclose by lay a group of four Indian sharpshooters, each with the loss of a limb—of an arm at the shoulder, of a leg at the knee, or withan amputation at the thigh. They neither spoke nor moaned, but suf
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