Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-19

Vi Tue ugut AZ wounded hnee, ana they must
be psrdoned il the conviction is deeply seated
in their minds that all the fighting on the part
OF civilization was done by the seventh cavalry.
Now the seventh undoubtedly did gallant work,
on foot and mounted. but the seventh did not
work the Hotchkiss guns, which did the major
portion Of the slaughtering. The business of
the soldier Ia to kill, and he who kills the most
is the greatest soldier therefore. ii is only right
that the deeds Of all concerned should receive
equitable treatment at the hands Of those who
Hotchkiss guns at Wounded Knee. They
were manned BY men Of light battery
E.. first artillery, and the battery
was commanded by Captain Allyn
Capron. Attached to the battery was Second
Lieut.. Hawthorne Of the second artillery It
has been asserted and reasserted in nearly every
paper OF prominence in the country that the
battery fired into the involuntarily mixed up
aggregation Of soldiers, bucks. squaws and
children as soon as the Indians made their un-
expected attack. Nobody seems to know why
such vicious charge should be made against
civilized and humane men, but it has been
made and circulated with much pernicious ac-
uvity. As a matter of fact not a shot was fired
from any gun in the battery until there was a
sufficient and clearly defined space separating
the whites and the reds, this by Capt. Caprons
express order. Not a soldier was hit by a
Hotchkiss missile, while on the other hand but
very few Indians succeeded in getting away
from the terrible projectiles In the New York
World of the Sth instant is a paragraph to the
effect that Lieut. Darlington of the seventh
cavalry commanded Hotchkiss gun until he was
severely wounded. Lieut.. Darlington, las matter
OF fact, made very plucky fight in his capacity
as cavalry officer, but he had no more to do
with any of the Hotchkiss guns than anybody
who was III Washington on December 20. Lieut..
hawthorne did work one Of the guns-served
it with deadly effect-untl he was severely
wounded, and then he gave way to Corp. Paul
II. Weinert, who had charge Of the gun until
the fight was over. The corporal has been and
is being highly complimented for his fidelity
and ability. Those who know anything of the
Wounded Knee fight are unanimously of the
opinion that the first artillery, Capt. Capron.
Lieut. Hawthorne and the men of light battery
p had all been purposely sighted in the pub
ilshed stories of the affair. The foregoing
statement is chunk of truth.
THAT INDIAN PAPPoosE.
Let Allison Nailor rejoice and be glad
Neither he nor Mrs. Nailor will be called upon
to attend to the little Indian girl who was
named for Mrs. Nailor. / have seen the infant
and this morning stumbled across the fact that
the child Is not as much of an orphan Maj.
john NJ. Burke supposed she was when he sug-
gested that she be christened Maggie &. Nailor.
Little Maggie is a chubby, black-eyed. long
haired full-blood of about four years of age. |
With her mother she was part of Big Foots
band, and on the morning of the fight at
Wounded Knee she was temporarily placed in
the care of another squaw because Maggie's
mother anticipated trouble and wanted her
hands free to do a little shooting on her own
account. AT five minutes past nine the first
shot was fired by crazy Indian and then fol-
lowed hail of death. The squaw who had
charge of Maggie was killed and the little cop
per-colored mite rolled into a gully, where it
escaped observation on that awful Monday.
lhen came a snow storm. a blizzard of the
most searching description continuing for forty
eiSht LourS, As soon as the weather moderated
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