The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-10
OLD INDIAN FIGHTERS
GEN. KING WRITES OF WESTERN
VETERANS IN THE FAR EAST.

VETERANS IN THE FAR EAST.
The Magnificent Bravery of "Long,
Lank LavtOn," who Has no Fear
of Bullets or the Men who Fire
Them-PIucl1y Chaps Whose Names
Were Household Words During
Our Battles With Red Men Are
Making New Records of Endurance
and VaIor in the War With the
Little Brown Fellows" in Our
New Possessions.
Copyright, 1899, by S. S. Mcclure Co.
Promising only that this is written at
your request, l gladly send some particu-
lars as to the men who, having long since
won distinction in the bloody warfare Wag-
ed with the Indians on our Western from
tier, sought service in the Philippines, and
were with us at Manila.
Foremost of all stands Lawton-facile
princeps Away back in the sixties and
seventies when our infantry and cavalry
were scattered ali over the territories
spending long months of every years in
scouting and skirmishing with the nimblest
foe that ever faced a white man, and we
youngsters used to discuss about the camp
fires the merits of the men who seemed
most conspicuous in this most perilous and
trying service, there were names that were
ever prominent. as there were regiments
that seemed forever destined to be in the
thickest of the fighting. The Seventh Cav
airy never knew what it was 10 have a
restful summer-they were forever on the
trail The Fifth Cavalry-my own regi-
ment-fought Apaches from n to rs.
Sioux and Cheyennes in 70 chased after
Nez Perces in II, the Bannocks in rs and
"pitch-battled" the Utes in 10 The Sec
ond Cavalry was for dong years pittel
against the Northern Cheyennes the
Sioux, the Blackfeet and the Piegans. The
Third Cavalry We're our predecessors in
Arizona against the agile mountain In
dians, and our comrades 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
a turn at the Apaches and their hands fun
looking after the Kiowas and Comanches
of the southern plains while the First for
ten years was compelled to tackle almost
unaided the tribes of the Upper Pacific
slope, and some of their troops were long
engaged with the Apaches of Arizona. In
the Infantry, the Fifth under Gen. Miles.
the Third. Seventh, Ninth, Twelfth, Four
tenth, Twenty-first and TWenty-third oc-
acknowledgement, and battalion of the
Fourth Artillery fought heroically 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 were younger SOL
diers who bore the brave responsibilities
of active command of scout and battle
through the Indian country, and it was in
them our interest as subalterns and con-
temporaries was mainly centered.
Names Were Household Words.
Their names were a little legion, to he
sure. and I shrink from their mention now
| because there is room for only few
when so many were then "as household
words" PHO Clark OF the Second; John
Bourke of the Third; Lawton of the
Fourth; Schuyler Of the Fifth; Gatewood,
of the Sixth Darlington, of the Seventh
Cavalry; Maus. Of the First Infantry;
Baldwin and Baird Of the Fifth, and
Jake" Randall of the Twenty-third In
fantry, We're men who won honors in
| campaign after campaign. were renowned
for courage and GOODNESS and were chosen
by their superiors for most important du-
ties in some of which, as Crook express
ed it. they carried their lives in their
nan0St so lIldt lut COAuliu VI 50 10 De
given this sketch would be inadequate even
for The names of the gallant lads who were
distinguished for bravery in battle against
the savage foe-too many, alas, who fell
victims to a thankless warfare-a war in
which we of the frontier force had every
thing 10 lose and practically nothing to
gain.
But for long time several months at
least the Indian fighters of the old DAYS
had few representatives in Manila. Our
| ireless corps commander, Mai. Gen. Otis,
it is true, had once out-generaled Sitting
Bull on the Yellowstone. Our First dvis-
ion commander, Maj Gen. Anderson, had
had long experience against the Indians
of Western Texas, and along the Column
bia. The little squadron of the Fourth
Cavalry was commanded at first by San
ford Kellogg with a fighting record from
old Fifth Cavalry days when he led his
troop in every campaign of his regiment
Apache, Sioux. Cheyenne, Nez Perce and
| Ute-losing three fingers to supplement the
| scars of Chickamauga. Then Rucker sue
ceesled and tried against the Filipino tao
tics he had learned in the Ninth "Brun-
cites" 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 In
dian battle in November, '76, and gallant
Jack Mckinney went down leading their
aid charge.