The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-10

year in scouting and skirmiShing with
the nimbleSt Zoe that ever laced a
white man, and we youngsters used 10
discuss about the camp fires the merits
of the men who seemed most consplcu-
Gus in this most perilou6 and trying
service, there were names that were
ever prominent, as there were reSl-
ments that seemed forever destined 10
be in the thickest of the fighting. Inc
Seventh cavalry never knew what 1t
was to have a restful summer-tney
were forever on the trail. The Fifth
cavalry - my own regiment = fought
Apaches from II to rs, Sioux ana
Cheyennes in '76, chased after Nez
Perces in -, the Bannocks in rs, and
. pitch battled'' the Utes in 10. Inc
Second cavalry was for long years
pitted against the Northern Cheyennes,
the Sioux. the Blackfeet and the Pie
gans The Third cavalry were our
predecessors in Arizona against the
agile mountain Indians, and our COM
rades against the hordes of Sitting
Bull, Crazy Horse Gall and Rain-in-
the-Face in rs. The Fourth, Sixth,
Eighth, Ninth and Tenth had each
turn at the Apaches ard their hands
full looking after the KiowaS and Com
anches of the southern plains, while
the First for ten years was compelled
to tackle almost unaided the tribes cd
the upper Pacific slope and some or
their troops were long engaged with
the ADaches of Arizona. In the infan-
try. the Fifth under General Miles. the
Third. Seventh, Ninth, Twelfth, Four
tenth, Twenty and Twenty-thlrd
asionally-engage0 and a battalion
of the Fourth artillery fought heroic.
ally against the Modocs in ambuscade,
losing most of its officers and many
devoted men. We had famous fighters
to lead us against the hostile tribes in
Crook. Miles, Merritt and Mckenzie,
but there We're younger soldiers who
bore the brave responsibilities of active
command of scout and battle through
the Indian country, and it wac in them
our interest as subaiternS and contem-
poraries was mainly centered.
Names Were Household Words.
There names were a little legion, TO
be sure. and l shrink from their men
ton now. because there is room for
only few when so many were then
las household words" Philo Clark OF
the Second John Bourke of the Third,
Lawton of the Fourth, Schuyler of the
Fifth, Gatewood of the Sixth, CARING
ton of the Seventh cavalry, Maus of
the First infantry, Baldwin and Baird
of the Fifth and Jake" Randall Of the
Twenty-third infantry were men who
won honorS il campaign after cam
paign, were renowned for courage
and GOODNESS. and were chosen by
their sIperiors for most important
duties. in some Of which, as Crook
expressed it. they carried their
lives in their hands, so that the col
umn or so TO be given this sketch
would be inadequate even for the names
of the gallant lads who were distin-
guished for bravery in battle against
the savage foe--too many. alas, who
fell victims to thankless warfare--a
war in which we of the frontier force
had everything TO lose and practically
nothing to gain.
But for a long time, several months,
at least, the Indian lighters of the old
d Tvs had few representatives in Ma
nila. Our tireless corps commander.
Major General Otis, it is true, haG
once out-generaled Sitting Bull on the
Yellowstone. Our First division COM
mander, Major General Anderson, had
had long experience against the Indi-
ans OF western Texas and along the
Columbia. The little squadron of the
Fourth cavalry was commanded at first
by Sanford Kellogg, with a fighting rec
ord from old Fifth cavalry days. when
he led his troop in every campaign of
his regiment-Apache. Sioux, Chey-
enne, Nez Perez and Ute-losing three
fingers to supplement the scars of
Chickamauga. Then Rueker succeed
GO anu dSdillSl Tic ilAfiilO lttc
tactics he had learned in the Ninth
"Brunettes' as effective against the
Lipans and Kiowas on the Staked
Plains. But the oldest cavalry captain
on duty last winter in Manila was still
wearing the cadet gray when the
Fourth fought its hardest Indian bat
tie in November, 1876, and gallant Jack
Mckinney went down leading their
wild charge.
His Watch Was Shot Into.
The battalion of the Third artiilerv