The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-29
HOW THEY WERE sTAMPEDED.
LAUGHABLE INCIDENT IN THE RE-
VIEW OF TROOPS AFTER THAT
GREAT FIGET.
MARCHING IN A Snow STORM.
Gen. Miles Tribute to the Survivors
of the Famous Seventh
Regiment.

IL.
troops at the close Of the last Sioux
war. Not since 1865, when the federal
warriors Of the rebellion marched
through Pennsylvania avenue in Wash
ington, had there been such a mobfli-
cation of all the arms Of the service
For days everybody at the Pine Ridge
agency talked about the coming re-
view, and when the eventful morning
came, with its sullen sun and terrific
wind there was a scramble of news
paper correspondents to the plain where
the troops were to pass before the
major general.
There was snow on the ground-just
enough to drift in little hummocks at
the root of the sage brush and grease
wood. The wind came out of the Black
hills with the velocity of a hurricane
1t filled the air with crystals and sand
and made the dWarfed pine trees on
the buttes bow wildly toward the east.
All was astir in the agency as early
as o'clock The great Gordon of sol
diers which had girdled the Dakotas
and the southern portion of Nebraska
and which had steadily pressed for
ward until the objective point-Pine
Ridge-was reached, now began to
dress for review. 1t was still dark
when the great bard Of the First in
fantry, of Angel island, began OF
play a quick -step. Then, from the
flaps of the Sibley5 tents the soldiers
came, until the plain was gridironed by
long lines of figures, dimly outlined in
the gray dawn of d January morning
The music and hustle had not escap-
Cd ha ott q nd Of he
10000 Indians who were encamped
about the agency and who were under
military espionage They came sullen-
ly from their smoke stained tepees,
many of them cloaked in white sheets
only and looking far more like Bed
ouins of the desert than the Indian as
fancy pictures him. Some of them
wore the eagle feathers of war; others
the paint, with which they had daubed
themselves in the dances in the bad
lands of White riVer.E The activity of
the soldiers filled the red warriors with
alarm. Their guns were in the posses
sion of the troops. Defenseless and
cOwed. they watched through the blind
ing storm the preparations of the regi-
ments to march to the plain where they
were to pass in review. Huddling like
sheep, the Indians took up positions on
the crests of the bluffs. Among them
were sleepy women in bright Nayajoe
blankets-the only color in the dismal
gray of the morning. Here and there
a child sstreaked with paint and tight
ly wrapped in vest Of elk teeth scam
pered about the ghostly CARRIED war
riors The long, brown Hotchkiss guns
which but fortnight before had made
a new Indian cemetery and whose roar
still rang in the ears of many of the
bucks were hauled at a mad gallop
from the Notifications.
1t was nearly 10 o'clock when Gen.
Miles astride a handsome roam, took
his position on knoll in the plain He
was in fatigue uniform. A black slouch
hat covered his head Beside him We're
Adj Gen. Corbin, Capts Maus and
Baldwin and Buffalo Bill, the latter
clad in a beaded buckskin jacket and
civilians trousers.
The storm was now in its fury. SO
fiercely did the wind blow that clouds
of sand and snow obscured the Indians
on the buttes and swirled and blinded
the general as he sat upon his nervous
horse.
There was little delay. The army
has no loiterers. Within five minutes
after Gen. Miles rode upon the knoll
the medley Of the great band from the
Pacific coast was heard despite the
hawking of the tempest Those who
stood beside the general could not see
the approaching musicians. The air
was too gray with the flying snow and
sand But Of a sudden the bandmaster
with baton at a salute. came out of the
cloud and took a position directly OPP
posite the general. Then marching in
nf hiC n9Nh
wearing a muskrat hat and a Miles
overcoat, drew up in one line to the
north The march music was borne by
the gale to the ghastly figures on the
bluff
The Fifth regiment, with the veneer
able Gen. Carr at it's head, was first
to pass in review The sword of the
and fell with military accuracy. Miles
raised his hat. Snow and sand fell
from its rim as he did so. The regf-
ment, which had been in the field for
a month, filed past, captains and lieu
tenants saluting. but never turning an
eye. Then came Col. Guy V. Henry,
the hero Of the Rosebud-lean, lank and
almost purple from the cold His saber
flashed to his SCARED face. but he
never turned his head. Again did the
major generals hat leave his head.
and then there passed close upon the
heels of the Fifth the gallant black
troopers of the Ninth, the Buffalo
soldiers who saved the Seventh from
Clusters fate at the Mission. The fly
ing battalion of Leavenworth, the Sec
ond infantry, the Eighteenth and a
portion Of the Twenty-second followed
with their officers swords at a salute.
Then came the Seventh. The band
now played "GaPryoWen." 3 and X
troops were in advance. Their red and
white guidons were in shreds and the
men would scarcely make a full COM
pany. These troops caught the storm
of lead at Wounded Knee Thirty-fve
of the men who were in the companies
a month before were dead and many OF
those who now passed@iin review wore
bandages over their wounds. Gen.
Miles uncovered his head as this ill-
fated and famous Regiment passed AL
though the weather, was bitter cold, the
generals head waSsbared until the last
gallant trooper off then regiment was
swallowed in the aSingssand and snow
Then came the artillery, whose mighty
guns had stained the rocks of White
river and Wounded Knee with the
blood of men, woIneng and children.
Capt. Capron wasi in&command. The
salute of this warrior was returned by
the general.
When the long rifed9 guns came out
OF the wall of snow and sand, with
grim cannoneers sitting with folded
arms upon the caissons, a strange, dra
matte scene took place on the buttes.
The Indians. who up to this time had
witnessed the parade with passive in
! difference now fed to their tepees
nearly mile away SO furious was
their fight that il seemed as though
they had been borne away by the wind.
With yells of fright they sprang upon
their ponies and before two batteries