Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-01-29

! General Miles som brero. Then the
| famous leader of the Southwestern
| troopers drew up alongside of
General Miles and General Brooke,
while his troops pushed Tor
ward through the storm. More
| Hotchkiss guns followed. then came
/ the Leavenworth battalion. a mixed
regiment commanded by Colonel Sand
| ford Behind these troops was still
another battery of Hotchkiss guns. the
| carriages of which still bore evidences
OF the furious storm that ragged Tor an
| hour at Wounded Knee. A lean,
shrunken-faced man. with his overcoat
| buttOned tightly around his throat and
| mounted on a splendid horse, followed
| the cannon. 1t was Colonel Guy V.
| Henry. who was shot through the face
in battle with the Sioux in 1876, and
who led his flying negro troops of the
| Ninth in an all-night ride of eighty
| miles to save the Seventh Cavalry,
| which was threatened with Clusters
| fate at the Catholic Mission less than
| four weeks ago Behind him were
| long lines of black faces. peer
| ing from fur caps and high col
| lars of buffalo OvercOats. Red
and white guidons fluttered before each
company The negro cavalry came liz
un broken columns. with its world
famed and decorated heroes of the
Thornburg massacre riding at the ex-
| IRENE left and their carbines at a sa-
lutte. Every man in the Ninth Cavalry
was in that long ebony wave of faces.
and as it swept in front of General
Miles the famous Indian fighter dipped
his hat again and again
There was another battery OF ma
chine guns, and then came in long
column front the most celebrated regi-
ment in the Western army. 1t was
preceded by a bugle corps mount
ed on white horses and from the gilt
terlng instruments there came a roar
that even the screaming of the storm
could not drown. The troopers of the
Seventh Cavalry, a regiment that has
been torn and leveled by ghost dancers
on the Duties. was approaching. The
musicians from California began to play
Garry Owen" a stirring. rollicking
melody which Custer said was fit music
for any soldiers death. The troopers
came WITH their carbines at salute.
and their blue capes flung back so that
theiryeliOw Innings Were exposed. Major
WhitesiCes was in command of the reg
iment. As it passed General Miles
the entire staff DOTTED their hats,
while the commander himself
waved his white gloved hand.
Troop after troop passed by. with
guidOn1 that had been riddIed with In
dian bl lets. until Il Troop and X Troop
came IL view. The appearance of these
troops aroused the emotions of the
spectators. Il Troop was not so large
as those that had preceded it. and X
Troop was even smaller. When the
savageS at Wounded Knee turned their
carbinGs upon the soldiers these troops
faced the awful fire. X Troop was
without its commander. and all of its
commi STONED and on-cOmmissioned
were those who We're not killed or
wounded in that terrible fight. and the
only officer to lead Il Troop was a Sec
ond Lieutenant with bandageS about
his head. But the gallant troopers who
remained rode with proud bearing.
their rifles being held over the
heads OF their horses. Behind the cav
airy came the hospital and supply train
and pack mules. The column was an
hour passing General Miles, there be-
ing nearly 1000 soldiers and 3. 200 horses
and mules in line.
The mandate has at last been given
dispensing large portion of the soldiers
massed here to suppress the Sioux up
rising. The troops of the Department.
Of the Missouri now in the field were
to-day ordered by General Miles
to proceed to their several sta
tions. except Captain Wells bat
tallion of the Eighth Cavalry, |
which goes to Fort Meade. s. d. |
Colonel Henry has instructions to seek |
d sheltered camp with his battalion of !
the Ninth Cavalry. at a distance of not |
more than ten miles from Pine Ridge |
Seventy members of the First Infantry, |
Colonel Shafter. San Francisco, have !
been allowed to transfer at will to regi--
ments now here and belonging to other
These changes still leave
four troops of the Seventh Cavalry,
Capron's Light Battery of the First Ar
tillery. all of the First. Second and
Sever teenth Infantry and Sixth Cavalry
and two companies of the Eighth In
fantry in the field.