The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-09
THEY DID NOT SCALE THE DEAD.
story or the Tuscarora Company In q Bcw YorB
Regiment In 1903.

story or the Tnscarora Company In q Dow rorb
REGIMENT In 1903.
The second annual report of Hugh Hastings.
the State Historian. forms an octave volume Of
1929 pages. not one Of which could have boon
omitted. There are ten different appendices
and these include: A complete list of all the
fights on land, big and little, in which New York
troops were engaged during the year 1851. wiCh~
a list of the bodies of troops engaged; an official
report regarding the part a company of New
York volunteers had In the battle between the
United States frigate Congress when she was
sunk by the Confederate ram Merrimac; o thrill.
ling story of tho last fight OF tho 14lst New
York Volunteers; a report Of tho 102d
New York Volunteers at the battle OF
Cedar Mountain; tho story of a fight to
save the colors of the 102d at the same fghts
q refutation Of the charge that Indians con.
nected with the 1920 Volunteers scalped the
Confederate dead at Batchelder's Greek, N. C.S
a literal transcript, 80 far as thoy could be de-
ciphered. of the official colonial records from
1864 TO 1914; all the muster rolls Of record. and
all the commissions issued by the colony from
1864 to 1850; a list Of the members of the 141st
New York Volunteers buried in tho National
Cemetery at Marietta, Ca. and q description
with an illustration OF Crown Point as 1t ap.
peared In 1860. To this table of contents must
be added brief biographical sketches of ten
noted New York Generals.
Perhaps of all the work contains nothing "a
likely to arouse moro interest than the old
scalping story. 1t originally appeared in the
New York Church Journal in 1868. An oficeP
writing from Now Berne. N. O.. to this paper
regarding the fight at Batchelder's Creek. N. O..
said: There were two companies OF Indians in
Col. Claassen's regiment. and every rebel they
caught yesterday was killed and scalped, and 10
served the devils right"
The year of 1863 was so full Of exciting mat.
tiers that the ~scalplng incident was overlooked.
but n year or 30 ago Joseph o. Lopez of Com
pany f, Ninety-niuth New York Volunteers,
wrote n pamphlet giving his own experience 40
a prisoner among the Confederates. and In II he
made reference not only to tho ~scalping. but the
strange doings of ono of the Indians mentioned.
When captured at Beech Grove, N. O.. on July
"a. 1894 LoP.z E1s taken before Major Whit
the l32d New York. or you would be strung up.
dians OF that regiment scalped our wounded al
Batehelder,s Greek ,J Bridge. and we will hang
AS to tho Indians. Lopez says that Just before
h ferm m4 co g%RIgf "p the he r Sa% fro map The I" o Snfsd a1.;
lines, then about two miles away. He was
made mSsE," very 9,0P ifit isFG Pspiyy' H asa was @n plain sR9s sn 1 70
dim, and when he told that he belonged to the
i fsIa HsS CAMP 1psi ana maj nn mS sr% S q few g" oth sne q Sss.
sftSs : S g 81 H. Sss IA TSis ssSpS Sss S SsssSi
Ing Mr.. Hastings, he undertook the task OF get
ting the facts. and found a'plenty to declare that
IA! "%s ff aiso Is he'll 1e IT'S ssei en- mans expression was
1t aPpesrs that the Indians were recruited
we're organized as Company d OF tho 1921 Vol
%unteers under Capt. Cornelius 9. Cusick, who
they We're called The 'Tuscarora company.
They served until the end q the war and are
valuable as scouts and sharpshooters. Accord
ing to Cusick. he had two fights at Batohelder.s
1864. lilo declares that no Confederate wounded
were seen by him or his men after either fight
inh' they they s been N" so GhspSs To- imfs'P ss ANY 1 GRst et tSs
shooting, was done at long range, and that only
the heads OF his own men and those, OF the
nemy as well were exposed, ThOs hit wore
nil in the head. and that on this account Major
Svs thnr w TiEG R. GslI IT S s%SnlP,ng at long range
Lopez, by Major Whi!ford, is, apf9unded 10
coming from the enemy's camp before the cap
lure Of Lopez. This Indian was Abram Powlis.
was used as a scout. and 1T was a singular fact
that he was accorded immunities by the enemyt
dom Of the county beyond our lines" lie had
been among the Confederstes many times after
wac va. % one Of t tSs'H inaia ms Of aSS he i isad i? Ssx t9 Yorf no
being s]eaip9r:; Why did they not hong him II
Col. p J. Claassen, in writing Of tho matter.
thinks that the skin OF one OF tho Indians with
ing story. Claassen wanted 70 cross the creek
with his men. hut II was swollen too high for
TO fol- trees 10 bridge the creek. So ClaSsaen
shooters, and 'be picked OF every man who
showed himself near the rebel guns until the
opcrate thar guns, and ! finally crossed. It WAS
d dSis %a sISrtad si tS.E .oSiDi Ss brave st i0ss tAahsa