, 1865-07-18
MILITARY MOVEMENTS.
4sri1M Of the Eighth Minnesota Regiment
SERVICE ON THE FROyfIER.
The Eighth Illinois Cavalry.

The Slh Minnesota regiment, commanded b
Col. land Drevet Brig. Gen.) II. T. Thomas, Al
| rived here yesterday evening, were entertainer
| vt The Rest, and will take thsIr departure thf
morning for Fort Smelling, Minnesota, whars
they are to be mustered out Of the service.
They were mustered into the service Angus
24th 1862, and we're Kept for the fs:t two years
their term in tho pleasant occupation Of Iudau
fighting On the frontier. In this service tteJ
to1neda portion Of Gen. snlly's Indian exped.
ton in 1864, one Of the most arduous ever nnd.r
taken IN Ibis country. For the five months thai
the regiment was on thIa sxpetitton lhey marched
IN average Of fourteen and one.half miles per
tsy mes "a 20 ss7ers "a - thls apon he
thar two hundred were lost out Of the 8th reei.
meut by faugue alone. Two great Indian battles
aeS S5P ssr a1si & TT Iss 60{
they burned sixteen hundred Indian edges, and
st Wah pah chou-cho X t. The thick tlmtsred
rfser, the point whence al tie mui Of ia . Mis.
eou1i IS said to come from) where the brigade Of
two infantry regiments and one battery, Alto
Gethet seventeen hundred and SIXTY, Of which
nine tfousand Indians whole day and dtoys
them twelve miles through thi.kly. timbered
oen xen AZ Enemy va va fesss to &
.ArRe kod1ea Of Indians would appear 20 suddenly
that they would eeem to hsve sprung tEom the
earth. and on their nne.spisls+d hoFsea would
almost in tbe fsce Of the meu, Wheel and dissp
q II a. snddenly End myetetiously as they came.
patt,me- Struggling parties Of soldiers were a.
noet certain to be Waylatd aud killed at mo-
mants no Ice BY overwhelming numbers, and
p1etent sae whole line. Gen. Thomas fea Gsisrs %
with no little pleasure to the fact that not one Of
hts msa WIS ever taken alive By the Indians, and
furthermore thas they never took an Indian pFts
Last October they vera sent to Mu.frce.eoro,
Tenn., and were there enEAked ~ the job Of
September 4th, snd At III. Ced.rs on The iii. SUB
had for three weeks the dsaly tael Of going ont Of
corn on which thrJ supported llle. Relleved ffnm
thss unpleasant Pseaicament they. joiued the e3d
corps On December 3Gth 1t Colnmhl1, Tenn, aad
tory. Aftes the battle OF Kluston, N. c, they
joined 8hefmA1's army At Goldaboro, 0nd marched
WITH him To Rs1stRh b. Wcnce, Whsn the main body
Of that army m0Vta north, they were sent to
Chsrlolter n, G. Alter two months duty there
they weEe ordered home to be mustered ont.
Gen. Thomas has never had commsnd OF bis
erM from almost the hr.t Of its service. He Wis
Miupas ota, and remained the.e uutll Sully's ex.
eomnand e Of ths ID bs1esde, ii diyls1on, sd
corps. and commanded thst unhl June 20, 1865
when he wa* made eomnsraant Of the lst divis-
NAMED until his Il gtment was ordered home. In
mediate1o after the var fri broke ont he entered
the service 90 I'd Ieut- tn the "a Minnssota, and
from ihat to LeutenaEt Colonel, both umes for
7allantry. : The regiment when first organized
numbered 800 men, subtequen II It received 10
Is cfirers. lhs following is their roster OF
officers:
Lieut.. Co'opel--+
Major-El T. Folsom.
Ad;nta1t-Lewis G. PaxsGn.