Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-27

Patrick Gallagher, Sergeant Francis Ray
mond, Private Patrick Rooney, Corporal
Gustave A. Bauer, Private Albert IL. Waiter,
Private Henry *. Aarons, Private Michael
O'Gara, Private Jacob Rosenberg, Private
Frank p. Sullivan, Private Patrick smith
Sergeant William Morgan, Corporal John
Quinn, Private George W. Burrell, private
Timothy Cullinans, Priyate John Nla 40
Sergeant Alexander Smith, Sergeant
Ephraim c. Bissell, Corporal George
Phillip, Corporal Michael Sharkey, Cor
poral Karston, Private George Davis,
Private Perrie +. Doland, Private Asa Grill
fin, Private Herman keil, Private James
kean, Private Thomas NJ. Madden, Sergeant
James Baker, Corporal James Kelley, Cor
poral Thomas +. Honigan, Burglar Adolph
Thomas Broglin, Private Thomas ANDERSON,
Private William Bugbee, Private William
Conroy, Private Charles Cuddy, Private
Patrick Clancy, Private Harry 5. DeminR.
Daniel, Private Nathan Foreman, Private
Andrew NJ. Fitzgerald, Private Daniel
Green, Private Charles GamfOrd. Private
John Giller, Private Ferdinand Houser, Pri'
CURE, Private John McColley, Private George
". Nugent, Private Franklin Payne, Private
james Ryan, Private Oliver Williams, Scout
John Wheatley, Scout John Fisher.
The first twenty-one men named be-
longed TO Company a, Second battalion,
Eighteenth infantry, The next nine
men named belonged to Company G.,
Second battalion, Eighteenth infantry.
The next six named belonged to Com
pany f., Second battalion, Eighteenth
infantry. The next thirteen men be-
longed to Company II, Second battalion,
Eighteenth infantry. The remaining
men, twenty-siX in all, belonged TO
| Company O, Second United States
| cavalry. and constituted the entire COM
| pany, ! believe. at that time under com
mand of Captain Brown.
Captain William j. Fetterman was
| the son of a military father, Captain
George Fettermun-!ong since dead
William Fettermau was appointed first
lieutenant in the Eighteenth infantry,
Nav IA, 1861, and became captain in Oc-
tober, 1861. He served throughout the
war, and was brevetted for gallant con-
| duct at the battles of Murfreesboro,
Tenn, Jonesboro, Tenn, and on the
Atlanta campaign. He was brave, but
impulsive. He had II great contempt
for the Indian, and this feeling brought
him to ruin, and with him nearly "a
hundred others. He was a good, kind
hearted gentleman, and was sincerely
mOurned by his comrades. At the time
of his death he was the senior captain
in his battalion,
Captain Fred Brown, who was killed
with Colonel Fctterman, rose from the
ranks. He was appointed second lieu
tenant Oct. 30, 1861, in the Eighth in
fantry, first lieutenant March n, 1862,
and captain May ID, 1866. He was bre-
vetted for gallant conduct on the At
lanta campaign. He a "A Grave man
but very impulsive and always wanting
to fight. He got enoughlof it at last.
George w. Grummond was appointed
second lieutenant, Eighteenth infantry,
May Z, 1866, and was killed in the fall
of the same year. He volunteered to
go with Fettermau and of course
knew nothing about Indians. He left a
young n spirited wife who at first
was very bitter against Darlington for
the loss of her husband and blamed the
colonel for causing her husbands death
but she is now Carrington's second wife,
so that il he lost her a husband he sup
piled her with one and that makes it
even for Mona.
This is the pitiful story Of the Phil
Kearny massacre, which never need
have happened. Like the Custer mas
sacre, it was the result of rashness and
the pity is not SO much that Fetterman
and Custer were killed al that so
many poor fellows we're killed with
them.
Since writing the foregoing / have
visited the Fetterman massacre ground
and inspected it carefully, making
photographs of the important points,
1t is about twenty miles from this post
Fort Mckinney, Wyo.) 1t Is on the
main road from Buffalo to Sheridan
and Fort Custer. The old fort Phil