The morning call., 1891-01-28
Imposing Display Made by the
Army of the Northwest.
sullen Sioux Witness the Pageant From Com
manding Buttes-Carr's Famous Sixth
Cavalry and Clusters Gallant Seventh.

Government toward its wards. The dav
was one OF the most disagreeable of the cam
paign The wind blew from the north driv-
ing sand and snow over the valley in blind
ing and choking sheets. The camp of the
soldiers was two miles from the arenov
Tents ran in long lane through the great
ravine, the creeks of which were still flecked
with snow from the early morning storm.
Through sitting gale of sand General
Miles and his staff rode in a ragged group.
the wind raising the tails of their
horses over their TANKS. 1t was after
10 o'clock when all preparations were
made for the review. The SUBMITS of the
buttes to the north were then fringed with
Sioux warriors. who were closely wrapped
in their blankets and staring at the long
lines of cavalrymen and infantrymep. which
stretched away to the south until they were
lost in the flying sand. The redskins were
a strange group of spectators. They looked
like Arabs as they are sometimes seen in
prints, sQuatting on the ground or mounted
on ponies on the top OF the knobs when the
sun is sinking. Many of the late ghost
dancers were still wrapped in the precious
but ghostly habiliments of the strange reIi
gious craze. Others were cloaked in blue
blankets, the wind tossing their culored
ribbons and eagle feathers In barbaric
grandeur The great Indian village. two
illiltS DUIiH, Was utoeIltl, ana the SullpD
Sioux seemed awed by the activity of the
troopers Shiyering in the biting wind were
their thousands OF ponies, huddled about
the teneeS. The warriors were still suspf-
clous that some move would be made to
wipe them off the face of the earth. Stretch
ing IN 4 long ghOStly line along the ridge o {
buttes to the north were their plckets,
ready to give the word that would send the
redskins flying in case the soldiers should
advance upon them.
REVIEWED BY MILES.
General Miles sat upon black horse on a
knoll to the east, in front of his escort,
which consisted Of representatives of every
arm OF the army in the field and Captains
MauS, Baldwin and Ewers. Finally there
came through the gale the shrill notes of
the bugle. They were so faint that they
were almost lost in the storm. Then one by
one the troops took up the call and the great
parade OF tile regular army, which was the
grandeSt since the final dispoSement of
troops IN 1865. in Washington, began to pass
in review. General Brooke, muffied up in
wolf-skin overcoat, grimy from SAND that
swlrled about his horse, and followed by his
staff, led the procession When the horse
men passed in front of General Miles the
two leaders of the campaign dipped their
hats. Then General Brooke, wheeling his
horse over the yellow grass, took his posi-
ton beside his superior. a cloud of sand
now swept across the prairie, but through
the binding sheet and with heads muffled
IN huge fur caps came the great detachment
Of Sioux scouts. with Captain Taylor with
his sword at salute. at their head.
Sergeant Redshirt the handsomest Indian
IN tue Sioux nation, was at the extreme
right. his long hair tossing in a tangled mass
over his shoulders. 4ankton Charlie, who
saved the REVIEWERS of poor Lieutenant
Casey. rode at the left of the line, his over
coat buttoned so closely about him that the
war feathers on his breast were concealed.
Behind these famous scouts was the First
Regiment Band of Angel Island, Cal, in
lur mlttens and caps, playing a march,
which was almost lost in the roar of the
storm. When the musicians, with horns
roaring and drums rafting got opposite
General Miles, they stepped away from the
column so that they faced their commander
Then came the great swinging column of
cabs and enEHEg rfagYGS t9eYsF 81
over their shoulders.
THE FAMOUS FIRST.
Colonel Shafter, with his side whiskers
closely clipped, rode at the head of the adj
vancing column. The men marched in COM
pany 'front.' with their red and white guidons,
tattered by shot and shell, swapping spite.
fully in the gale. This was the famous
GERS passed in trout OF General Miles their
swords flashed through the flying SAND, and
then fell at their saddle girths.
Captain Dougherty, grim veteran of
dozen Indian wars, and the man who had
his three-inch rifled gun trained on the hos
tiles all the time they marched up the valley
10 the agency, was at the head of one col
umn. Those ragged guidons went down be.
fore the commanding General, and instantly
they fell back as the sombrero OF the great
lniian strategist was dipped. The band
now ceased playing. and in place of its mel
ody there came the stirring and shrill mus
teriDgs of q dozen bugleS
Behind the trumpeterS tTamped the Sec
ond lufantry of Omaha, in blue overcoaLs
and brown legglngs, with Major Butler at
fnelr mead, ana then came the Seventeenth
infantry, swinging along with the iaunti-
ness i displayed when 1t marched through
the blizzard and sand along the Cheyenae
River. There was rumbing back of the
infantry. Mules with patient looking faces
ana statuesque ears were dragging machine
cannon. Those guns, the Indians declare
shoot to-day and kill tomorrow. The noise
came from battery OF Gatling and Hotch-
KISS guns, with mules plodding along at
their sides with cartridges packed in white
canvas bags on their backs. Behind these
machlne cannon was Captain Capron's bat
holding carbInes sitting on cassons.
CA1sR's SIXTH CAVALRY.
Behind the artillery was General Carr.
astride OF bay horse and leading the Sixth
cavalry, which has cut its way through the
southwest, from the Indian Nation to the
Rio Grande. The General wore SLOUGH
hat, his griZzled whiskers tossing ali abont
the collar of his buffalo coat. His entire
regiment was prancing behind him, the
troopers being muffed in canvas oyercnats.
with their rifles sung to their saddles
General Cars hat went off with deliberate
grace. Its response was the dipping of
General Miles sombrero. Then the famous
leader of the Southwestern troopers drew
up alongside of General Miles and General
Brooke, while the troopers pushed forward
through the storm. More Hotchkiss guns
followed, then came the Leavenworth
battalion, a mixed regiment commanded
by Colonel sanford. Behind these troops
was still another battery of the Hotclkiss
guns, the carriages Of which still bore
evidences OF the furious storm that ragged
1or an hour at Wounded Knee. A lean,
snrunken-laced man, with his overcoat but
toned lightly around his throat and mounted
on splendid horse. followed the cannon.
IL was Colonel Guy V. Henry, who was shot
through the face in battle with the Sioux
10 1870 ana who led his flying negro troops
VI .ile Nlhtn III an nll-night ride of eighty
miles TO save the Seventh Cavalry. which
was threatened with Clusters fate Mt the
Gatnoiic Mission less than four weeks 400.
behind hun were long lines of black faces.
PeerinS from fur caps and high collars of
eunalo oVercoats. Red and white guidons
nuttereu before each COMPANY, The negro
cavalry came in unbroken columns with its
Morlu- famed and decorated heroes of the
Inc df9ornOarg massacre riding at the extreme
,ua, anu y, ~ ehelr carblnes at salute Every
man 10 the Ninth Cavalry was in that long
eeeony wave OF faces, aud as it swept in front
OF uene RAJ Miles the famous Indian fighter
dipped his hat again and again
CLUSTERS FAMOUS SEVENTH
1here was another battery of machine
guns, and then came in long coiumn frnnt
me most celebrated regiment in the We Il
ern army. 1t was preceded by n hngIe corns
mounted on white horses and from the gilt
oerine instruments there came roar that
even the screaming of the storm conid not
drown. The troopers of the Seventh cav
airy, regiment that has been torn and Law
eled by ghost dancers on the buttes was an
preaching The musicians from I,aiifornia
Beg began to play Garry, Owen" Stirring,
ro.ilch'Rs melody which Custer said was fit
music for any soldiers death. The troon.
ers came with their carbines at a salute.
ana their blue capes flung back so that their
yellow Innings were exposed. Major White
sides was In command of the reginent.
As It passed General Miles the entire staff
DOTTED their hats, while the com
mander himself waved his uh;.no Iun