St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-25
J. THOMPSON, collar bone fractured
H. PURVIS, shot in the left arm.
KING, shot slightly.
LATER ADyIcEs

L<A1EIs ADV ICES.
Several others have been wounded, but
have not been brought in yet. One party
OF rebels has just been dislodged by the ar
tillery, which is still shelling rebels out of
the ravine. Several Indian ponies have
been captured. The rebel loss is not yet
known. The Indians set the prairie on
! fire, but heavy hailstorm eXtinguiShed the
flames before they had gotten under head
way.
A SKETCH OF GEN. MIDDLETON.
Maj. Gen. Middleton, who is now
at the seat of war. first became known in
Canada at the time of the Trent affair as a
major in the Twenty-ninth regiment. The
headquarters of that corps were at Hamil-
ton, but Maj. Middleton spent good deal
of his time in Montreal, where he was
widely known and universally liked. After
serving some ten years On the staff of Gen.
| Windham he left for home at the time of
the withdrawal of the imperial troops, and
soon after was appointed commandant OF
the Royal Military college, The general
obtained his first commission as ensign on
the 30th Of December, 1912, and saw his first
| active service i'll the southern part OF New
Zealand, where he took part in the attack
on Wanganui. He afterWard served in In
dia during the Santhal rebellion and the
never-tO-be-forgotten Sep0y mutiny OF
1878. He was orderly officer to Gen.
Franks in the action of SultanpOre, and
subsequent affairs on
THE ADVANCE TO LUCKNOW.
At the siege and capture of that city he
was aide-de-camp to Gen. Luard and took
part in the stOrming OF Banks house and
the Martiniere, where his gallant conduct
gained for him the brevet of major. The
general subsequently served in nearly all the
principal actions during the mutiny and was
time and again specially mentioned in home
dispatches, and has received the order of
Commander Of the Bath. According to the
new rules relative to compulsory retirement,
Maj. Gen. Middleton would have had to
leave the army as colonel last November,
but getting the command of the Canadian
militia and his major generalship he can
now serve on for some years. The general
was recommended to Lord Clyde by Lieut..
Gen. Sir E. Luard for the Victoria cross for
two acts of bravery, of which the following
is brief outline: On April Is, 1858, in the
engagement near AZemghur, troop of the
militia train charged large body of rebels.
Capt. Middleton, staff officer, had been
ordered by Sir Edward Luard to take
command Of the party, and gallantly he
led it.
In the melee Lieut.. Hamilton, Third
Sikh cavalry, fell from his horse mOrtally
wounded. A body of Sep0ys, tulwar in
hand, rushed at him to cut him to pieces.
Capt. Middleton and Farrier Francis Muir
ply, i'll desperate hand-to-hand fight,
killed several of the enemy and drove off
the rest, and enabled some others, who
afterward came up, to carry off the
wounded officer. On the same day and
about the same time Private Fowles of the
military train was unhorsed and wounded.
The rebels were swarning about him and
were on the point of cutting him TO pieces
when Capt. Middleton coolly diSmounted,
placed Fowles on his horse and brought
him to camp. More devoted and heroic
conduct was never rewarded by the Vic
tOria cross. Yet, though Murphy received
the decoration in question, Lord Clyde de-
clined to recommend Capt. Middleton, on
the ground that he was on the personal
staff at the time In writing about this
the Army and Navy Gazette stated that
this was incorrect, for Capt. Middleton had
been expressly placed in command of the
party. But even had he been merely pres
ent as a staff officer, the Gazette fails to see
how that fact would have diminished the
credit due to his unselfish and heroic con-
duct. Gen. Middleton was appointed to
the command of the Canadian militia on
the withdrawal of Gen. Luard last year.