Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-01-23
BRAVE BOYS, THEY
The Men Who CorraIed the Re-
belIious Sioux.
GEN. kIEs REVIEWS ITS TROOPS.

Won Fame, in Line-Redskins Line the
Hills and Watch, Suspicious of Every
thinS-The Review Il Great Success in
Spite Of bad weather.
PINE RIDGE AGENCY, :. D., Jan % The
thousands OF Sioux lad the opport unity
4 yesterday to see the strength and disci-
4 pline of the United States army, for the
end of the ghost dance rebellion was
d marked by review of ali the soldiers who
have taken part in crushing the Indian re-
bellion The day was one of the most dis
agreeable OF the campaign. A furious
wind blew from the north, driving the
4 sand and snow over the valley in binding
q and choking sheets The camp of soldiers
Z vas two miles from the agency The
q tents ran in long line through great
q ravine, the sides of which were still fecked
with snow from the early morning torn
The Reds still Suspicious.
Through the sitting gale of sand Gen
Miles and his staff rode in a ragged group.
the wind tossing the tails of their horses
over their TANKS. 1t was after 10 clock
when all preparations were made for the
review. The SUBMITS of the buttes 70 the
north were fringed with Sioux warriors,
who were closely wrapped in their blank
cts ana staring stolidly at the long line of
cavairymen and infantrymeu which
stretched away to the south until
they were lost in the flying sand The
redskins were q strange group of specta-
tors. They looked like Arabs as they are
sometimes seen in paintings, squat ng on
The ground or mounted ON ponies on the
top OF the knobs when the sun is sinking
Stretching in a long, ghostly line on the
ridges OF buttes TO the north were their
would send the redskins flying in case the
( soldiers should advance upon them
The Sounds of the Bugles.
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 trum peters
took up the call and the great parade Of
the regular army, began to pass in re-
view Gen Brooke, muffied up in wolf
skin overcoaJ, grimy from the sand that
swirled about his horse, and followed BY
his staff. led the procession. First came
the great detachment of Sioux scouts with
Capt. Taylor, his sword at a salute. at
4 their head Sergt. Red Shirt, the hand
soonest Indian in the Sioux nation, was
Z at the extreme right his long hair tossing
in tangled masses over his shoulders.
Yankton Charley, who saved the reviewers
of poor Lieut.. Casey, rode at the left of the
line, his overcoat buttoned so closely about
him that the war feathers on his breast
were concealed.
Famous Infantry Regiment.
A band came next and then great
swinging column of infantry in brown
canvas overcoats, fur. caps the glittering
barrels of their rifles over their shoulders.
This was the famous First regiment of
the army, and as its officers passed in front
of General Miles their swords flashed
through the flying sand and then fell to
their saddle girths. Captain Doug herty,
the grim veteran of a dozen Indian wars,
and the man who had his three-inch rifed
gun trained on the hostiles all the time
they marched up the valley to the agency,
was at the head of one of the col umns
The ragged guidons went down before the
commanding general; instantly they fell
back and the sombrero of the great indian
strategist was dipped.
The Guns Come Into View
The shrill blasts of dozen buglei were
next heard Behind the trum peters
tramped the Second infantry of Omaha
IN blue overcoats and brown leegings,
with Maj Butler at their head Then
came the Seventeenth infantry swinging
along with the jauntiness it disolayed
when 1t marched through the bIizza I'd and
sand along the Cheyenne river There
was rumbling back of the infantrymen
The mules. with patient-looking faces,
and statuesque ears, were dragging t ne ma
chine cannon. those guns the Indians de-
clare shoot to-day and kill tomorrow
The noise came from battery of Calling
and Hotchkiss guns, with mules ploddin9
along at their sides, with CARTRIDGES
packed in white canvas bags on their
backs Behind these machine cannon was
Capt. Capron's battery of three inch rifled
guns, with soldiers holding carbire IS sit
ting on the caissons
The Glorious Sixth Cavalry
Behind the artillery was Gen. Carr
astride bay horse and leading the Sixth
cavalry. which had cut its way through
the southwest from the Indian nation to
the Rio Grande. More Hotchkiss gums
followed Then came the Leavenworth
battalion, a mixed regiment commanded
by Col Sanford Behind these troops was
still another battery of grim Hotchkiss
guns, the carriages of which still bore evil
dence of the furious storm of shot that
ragged for an hour at Wounded Knee A
lean, shrunken-faced man, with his over
coat buttoned tightly around his throat
and mounted on a splendid horse, followed
the cannon 1t was Col. Guy " Henry,
who was shot through the face in the bat
tie with the Sioux in 1876, and who led his
flying negro troopers of the Ninth in an all
night ride of eighty miles to save the Sew
enth cavalry, which was treatened with
Custer fate less than four weeks ago
Line of Black Heroes.
Behind him were long lines OF black
faces peeping from fur caps and the high
collars of buffalo overcoats. The red and
white guidons futtered before each COM
pany. The negro cavalry came in I'M
broken columns, with its world famed and
decorated heroes of the Thornburph mas
riding at the extreme left, their
salute. Every man in the
dry was in that lonI. ebony
.ces, and as it swept in front of
no farming Indian 6rhe,-