Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-08-25

wounded safely housed under the roof
Of the hospital at old Pawnee, many
severely shattered OF suffering great
pain. Many viii bear to their diving
day lnementos Of that savage Decem-
Der battle. Some Of the twosoore are
doing very wellj others perhaps have
done better, and are sleeping under the
flag. A busy man is Holden, and a very
/ proud one, as he has the right to be, for
h one and all the troopers love to speak of
him as their fighting sawbones." He
was in the thick of it an when the rush
\ Of the realward mounted troops swept
into and through these fire splitting
lodges, and the Indians-warriors
squaws and childreu-were scattering,
fighting fiercely all tire way to the
shelter Of the ravines among the bluffs
Tireless as ever he and his assistants are
constantly at the bedsiGes Of the wound
ed. 50 il the chaplain, one Of the church
militant, whose souls in arms and
eager for the fray" for his friends of the
Twelfth are under two fires.
Calamity and well have they with
stood that which, with sudden treachery
at the hands Of their savage foes, flashed
in their very faces. But they have no
\ redress as against this-this civilized
lashing at their very backs The par
sons sermon Sunday morning i'll answer
to the driveling sentimentality OF GER
/ tain misguided ccclesiastics far from tho
scene of conflict almost lifted old Ken
+ yon and his comrades out of their seats.
The major hugged lis chaplain after
Y service and stopped to shake hands with
Y him every time he met him during tho
afternoon. III many d pulpit east Of the
Missouri with fearful fervor was the
+ picture drawn of those helpless, plead
ing Indian mothers, those shrieking, ter
rifed little Indian babes, ruthlessly
slaughtered by brutal and infuriated
\ soldiery. Nor were the clergy without
warrant for their bottom facts" since
\ III some mysterious way the representa-
tives Of the press, lowering about that
impersonal section of military anatomy
known as headquarters, were flooding
the columns Of their journals with para
graphs about the wanton killing of wo-
men and children in the fight in front Of
the Twelfth.
4 ''Iloly joe as the parsen had been
termed. knew well the day when, il the
seclusion and simplicity of his seminary
life, he would have swallowed whole
( just such statements and turned up the
+ whites of his eyes III sympathetic horror
at the recital. But the man Of God on
4 the banks Of the Melrimac and his
brother iii the cross on the upper Mis-
souri, see very different sides Of the vex-
ing Indian question. Holy joe at
Pawnee this sparkling month of Janu-
4 airy was mad clear through at the indig-
mites and aspersions cast upon his blue
coated comrades. He wrestled with the
brethren Of his cloth and downed them.
4 He even dared to establish censorship
Of the press and to keep from the hands
Of his precious wounded those journals
which had assailed the Twelfth.
/ He had had his hands full, poor fell
4 low, long before the wounded came, for
/ those were dire days and nights after the
news was flashed to the post and the
widowed and fatherless in their affiic-
I ton We're thrown upon his hands. Poor
Mrs. Thorpe! All, she was only one Of
4 several. There was wailing among the
wives and little ones down where once
! the soldiers families were so thickly
clustered. There were other households
in dread anxiety. There were wsmen
broken down with grief and sleepless
watching There was one SO i'll she
could not even now be told she would
] never look uDon the face Of her gallant