Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-30

the former with their lives and the latter IN
total or partial disabilities.
Later.
$50 P. M, April 27.-The reinforcements
sent out under Col. Green, together with
the killed and wounded, are expected mo-
mentarily. A heavy rain is now falling,
and will be beneficial to the poor wounded
men, alleviating their sufferings and relief
to their fevered limbs. Their arrival is
anxiously looked for by their more fortu-
nate comrades in camp. Every preparatlon
is made for their proper reception. when
the news of the massacre reached the
camp, soldiers who had grown old and
grey in the service, wept like babies for the
fate of their officers and comrades.
News to Monday.
600 A. NJ, April 2S.-The troops with the
killed and wounded are returning In ad.
dition to the death list given, First Sergeant
Robt. S. Ramer, of battery A and private
James Rose, of battery Z, fourth artillery,
died yesterday. Sergeant Buck oil battery
A, came in wounded-nct previously men
toned. In many instances it is difficult 10
recognize the dead but for some srticie OF
dress known to have belonged to them.
Indian barbarity has defaced the lineaments
of those killed except few. The Indian
policy has effected indirectly the death OF
Col. Candy aud an equally noble christian,
DR.. Thomas. Yet this city, (SAn Fra1cisco)
beginning the fifteenth, sixteenth and seven
teenth instants, were in favor of a continu-
ance of the same policy. But it required
the massacre of the twenty sixth to add the
crowning feather of glory due the Indian
Bureau supporters.
The folio wing is a )mplete list of the |
killed and wounded now in camp: Capt. |
Evan Thomas ofthe 4th artillery, battery A;
Lieut., Albion Howe of 4th artillery, battery |
A; private Robert S.Ramer of 4th artillery,
battery A, private Parker of 4th artillery,
battery A, private John Lynch of 4th artil-
lery, battery K; private James Rose of 4th |
artillery, battery .K;private Joseph A. Ward |
Of 4th artillery, battery K; private Michael |
Wallace of 4th infantry, company E;private |
Greed of 18th infantry, company E; Citizen |
Levi E. j. Weber of Fiskingson county. |
In addition to the foregoing eight men
were buried in the field whose nsm9s could |
not be assertained. Lieut.. Arthur Gran
ston and four men of battery A, are still |
missing. Wounded: private Joseph B. Rod |
erick Of battery A 4th artillery, left thigh; |
private Mathew Murphy of company E, 18th |
infantry, ring fnger;private Jas. Mcmillan |
of battery A, 4th artillery, palm |
of right hand; private John 81. Geferd, of |
battery K, 4th artillery, back of thigh; cor |
poral Jas. Noble, battery z, 4th artillery, |
in the neck; private Charles Cuff, of COM
pany E, 18th infantry, hand; sergeant M. |
Kennedy, of company E, 18th infantry, |
right elbow and breast; private James L. |
Butler, of company E, 18th infantry, both |
temples; private John Higgins, of battery |
<, 4th artillery, through the hand and |
shoulder; private Frank Rolla, of battery K,
4th artillery, left leg; private George Van
dewater, of company e, 18th infantry, |
right hip; private VIM. Mccoy, of battery |
Z, 4th artillery, right bullock and right |
hand; private j. B. Mclaughlin, of battery |
K, 4tb artillery, both feet and right shout |
der; sergeant Aug. Beck, of battery K, 4th |
artillery, right arm; first sergeant Clayton, |
of company E, 18th infantry, left leg; pri- |
vate NJ. Brennan, of company E, 18th in |
fantry, both arms fractured; Lieut.. G. M. |
Harris, of 4th artillery, back; Surgeon B.
Fleming, U. s. A, right leg. Add to list of |
killed: Private VIM. Boyle, of company -,
18th infantry; private Howard, OF company
E, 18th infantry; private Newsburg, of
company E, 18th infantry.
Distinguished Victims.
WASHINGTON, April 29.-Capt. Thomas,
reported among the killed by the Modocs,
was sou of Gen. Lorenzo Thomas, for |
merly Adiutant General of the army. |
Lieut.. Howe was a son of Maj. Marshall |
Howe, and son-in-law of Gen. Barry, Com
mandsnt of Fortress Monroe. Lieut.. |
Wright was son OF the late Gen. George |
Wright, and nephew of the late Gen. |
Sumner.
Views of the Gentiles.
SALT LAKE, UTAH, April 29.-Associ-
ated press dispatches, regarding the Modoc |
massacres, ere ate profound sensation in |
this city. The peace policy is vehementiy |
denounced.
Details of the Fearful Trap.
NY. Herald special from the Lava Beds
dated the 26th, says the force under Capt. |
Thomas, which started to reconnoitre tue |
position supposed to be held by ModCcs |
numbered 60. Their object was mainly to |
find out how the Modocs were situated and
whether the mortars could be brought and /
used effectually against them. As the |
troops sppro ached the cave Lava Bed about |
10 80 A NJ, our command was brought to
halt and the men allowed to take rest.
The story of the first fire is a difficulty,
some saying FIVE or six shots were fred and
others only four, but Tickn0r states posi-.
lively that it came from party of nine H.
dams who occupied bluff to the east of
where the troops were stationed.
Maj. Thomas Immediately threw his men
into diminishing order, Lieut.. Wrights
company on the right. The latter, how
ever, had not got into position before they |
were flsnked to the right by party Of IA
other Indians that had come up to the ad-
vance of those who fired first. The cross
fire on Wright's men proved very democrat
iziDg and they broke back in confusion,
leaving their gallant leader in an exposed
condition, and supported by a few of his
non-commissiOned officers.
In the meantime another small party of
Indians obtained position to the left and
opened raking fire on the two batteries of
artillery. 1t was fearful trap and the first
four shots were only fired to draw the
troops more directly between the fire of the
Indians on the right and lef6.
The rout was complete, and with the
exception of the officers and non-commis-
stoned officers, the majority of whom lay
stretched upon the ROCKS, with their life
blood ebbing fast away, the watchword
was Sauce qua peutl Confused and demon
allied as they were, the men became an
easy prey to the Modocs, who, confident in
LU6 pIOIeCLlOu VI IuolI udplNo LUCAS ouOG
them down like so many frightened deer,
Occasionally the news brought in by the
scared stragglers were exaggerated in the
extreme, but significant of some dire disas-
ter. Many of these men who had des 3rted
their officers in the time of peril, had seen
an hundred Indians all around them.
Fear had distorted their vision and
made them so helpless that one OF their
number was afterwards found dead On the
field without shot; he had been butchered
by knives, aud SO panic. struck he could not
fire a shot in his own defense.
1t was a mystery about the attack that
nobody appeared able to solve, as to how
troops were SO completely surprised. Ii in
camp, where were the pickets or advanced
skir1nishers? 1t appeared so strange that
party of sixty-nine men should be almost
surrounded by Indians without their being
aware of sign of an Indian as far as they
could see. %
This fact alone will give the public an i'd 9
of the nature of the ground in VIII CHI these
Indians fight and what our soldiers have TO
contend against. During the night the
Indians were creeping through the rocks
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