The National tribune., 1901-03-21
ROUGH RIDING.
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drew his saber, and charged with the rest.
| After crossing the creek Lynch's horse,
| being 4 fiery, hard-mouthed thing took
| the bit in his teeth and ran away with
him. He soon left all his comrades be-
hind and overlook crowd of the Chey-
ennes as they were running The In
dians, seeing what was the matter, opened
TO right and left, and let him pass in
amongst them; then shot a few arrows
INTO him, till he fell off his horse, when
| one of them jumped down, took Iynch's
| revolver out of the holster and shot him
couple of times with it, and then out
! with his knife and began to scalp him. but
our men were too close onto him and they
1alied to get the scalp, but got his horse
ana pistol. The Indians being overtaken
made quite little fight near this spot.
as several dead Cheyennes lying near
| Lynch showed.
BY being killed Lynch saved himself
a colrt-martiaf for "disobedience of or
ders" Va "a
There Were about 30 dead Cheyennes
left on the field, and probably MANY of
the wounded who got away died Orr
prisoner was taken. He had lost his horse
IN crossing the creek, and seeing escape
Impossible had thrown away all his arms
except his knife, and had thrown himself
on the ground, pretending to be dead,
waiting an opportunity to creep off and
escape. He was lying near Serg't Me
Cune, OF Co. ID. who was wounded, and
some OF our men in passing noticed the
Indlan crawling, at intervals. toward Me-
Cune, probably with the hope of finish
ing the Sergeant and scalping him. and
making his escape. But on finding him
SELF discovered he jumped up and sur
rendered. This is something unusual-for
an Indian to surrender-for they imagine
that they will be tortured to death, and
consider n al o.
70 be taken prisoner while yet able to
hight. They therefore usually fight as long
as they have breath and strength to raise
a hand.
Our Delawares went into the fight with
US and did good service but the Pawnees
10hoWed IN our rear, scalping the dead
Cheyennes and gathering up the ponies
ana other plunder lost by the Cheyennes.
j. Kenmore Cooper, in 'The Prairie"
represents the pawnees as a nation of
heroes. We found them to be cowardly,
treacherous, thieving, dirty set, utterly
devoid of honor, and totally unreliable.
Inc CheyenneS are far superior TO them
IN every way.
The Pawnees gathered in some 60 of
the enemy's ponies, which Col. Sumner
mad agreed to allow them to keep for their
services, and after coming back to camp
and hearing that a Cheyenne prisoner had
Deen taken, they came in a body up to
Col. Summers headquarters to try to OBJ
tam possession of the prisoner, in order
that they might hold war-dance and
put him to death by torture.
Of course, the Colonel refused to listen
to any Oyertures in this direction. They
made various offers to purchase the pris
oner-eyen offering to surrender to the
Colonel the 60 head of ponies they had
captured, and went off much exasperated
at his refusal.
Some of the Cheyennes had reyoIvers
of the old ''pepper-box" pattern (AIIen's
self-coclers), which they had probably OBJ
tanned by numbering and robbing emf
grants.
First Lieut.. J. f. B. Stuart, of Co. G,
was wounded by one of these 1t hap
pened in this way: Stuart, with few
men, noticed an Indian making off afoot
and galloped toward him. The Indian
seemed to be unarmed except a knife in
his belt and seeing he could not escape
turned and walked toward Stuart's party
and when they got near enough extended
one hand and said, How! how" which
they understood to mean that he was will
ing to surrender; but none of the party
seemed to notice that the rekskin was
holding something concealed behind him
in his other hand.
Stuart, disdaining to take advantage of
an unarmed enemy, turned to a Corporal
III his party and said:
Corporal Boggs, take that Indian pris-
oner, and take him to the rear"
While he yet had his head turned aside
talking to Boggs the Indian drew his con-
cealed pepper-box revolver from behind
him and fired, hitting Stuart in the shout
der, and, firing rapidly at the other SOL
diers, hit BOggs, also. woundine him
Slightly. in the side. Stuart's wound was
not serious, and he and his men quickly
drew their revolvers and riddled the In
dian, who kept dancing about to dodge
the bullets, till he fell dead.
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