The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1893-03-24

DreakIaSb anu reEeLilaiAeoi pue
Balance Of the day,
While here one Of our men
killed a young buffalo; the meat
was nice, sweet and tender.
When on the march to day we
could see at times more than I'VE
hundred buffaloes at once.
On the 18th. Of September
about noon the command arrived
at the Arkansas River and camp
ed.
AT this point the river is four
or FIVE hundred yards wide and
was nearly dry. The banks are
low and a rise of four or Ave feet
ofwater wouli oyefow the bottom
land for miles.
AS / stood on the bank and
looked across could scarcely
see that there was any water. The
view presented. was a beautiful
bed of sand from bank to bank.
Itook off my shoes, rolled up my
pants and crossed over to get
wood for our cooks. There were
little channels of water, clear as
crystal and about one foot deep.
could not help admiring this,
to me, beautiful and singular
river.
From this point we marched up
the river for about one hundred
miles. camping every night on
its bank.
In places the river was dry. but
by making a hole in the sand
a foot deep we were enabled to
get plenty Of water and strange
TO say, where the water was run
ming our men caught lots of fine
fish: Cat. White Bass, and Buffalo
fish, by spearing them with their
bayonets.
Along here our teams began to
grow weak and thin in flesh. The
grass was eaten off by the buffalo
and other wild animals.
For days we were not out Of
sight Of great herds Of buffalo.
elk.antelope olives and badgers,
and i wondered why they had
not left that part of the country
to hunt betterliving, for Thought
a sheep could not ind grass
enough to live on, and yet, the
buffaloes we killed were always
in good order.
On the 18th, marched IL miles
and crossed the Arkansas and
camped.
On the 10Th, camp did not
move; the day wasspentin wash
ing, cleaning guns and drawing
provisions. etc.
Thursday 18th. This morning
before taking up the line of march
we buried one of our brethren,
he died last evering, and it was
believed his death was FASTENED
by being forced TO take calomel,
he begged the doctor not to give
it to him, and for refusing he was
cursed aud insulted by the doctor,
whose name was Sanderson.
On the night of our brothers
death there appeared to be, as
was said, a star moving in all
directions. Captain Davis of
Company e. exclaimed, See,
see, | delare it does move,n this
aroused the camp from their
slumbers. looked with all the
eyes l had, but could see nothing
of the kind, it was so with others,
while there were a number de.
clared they saw what appeared
to be a star dancing.
Here we left the Arkansas
river.
Two buffaloes came running
near our lines when some thirty
muskets or more we're fred at
them breathing the leg of one.
The other, so far as / know
escaped, without a hole in his
robe. That day and the follow.
ing, men and teams suffered with
thirst, the weather was excessive
ly warm and every canteen soon
emptied. Men gave out and had
to be hauled TO camp in wagons.
We passed a small pond of filthy
water, made so by the tramping
and droppings of buffalo and
other wild animals that abounded
in the country, but this the men
did not seom to mind. They drank.
and to some extent refreshed,
Int q gracious hon, sal. ;+,a,