The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-13
FOUGHT AGAINST SIOUX.
OLD INDIAN FIGHTERS WILL
AGAIN AERvE TOGETHER.

AGAIN AERVE TOGETHER.
Gen. Butte ana SIaJoS sibasyw were win crooA
IN ths Bie HON and Yeilowstene EN-
p~tditiens-The sihiey seout's NARROW
Eoeape Prom Capture a. he Teiis o. W.
is.-oen. j. W. Bubb, who has been
| ordsred 10 O.. Paul TO Assume command
| ~ the Department Of Dakota, and Major
| Frederick w. eibley, the commanding
| oe,eer Of the Third Squadron OF the secord
| CayaIrv, now stationed at Fort Smelling.
sav service together against the Indians
d,,r,ns the campaign OF 1870 against the
siorx Roth were at that time young
Ns,tananta. Gen. Bubb had been pro-
u,oted from the ranks during HE service
in the civil war, while Major siblsy was
then q young oficer just out OF "ese
Point. They served throughout Gen. CROOKS
Big Horn and Yellowstone e~xpediiots'
ana Gen. Miles's campaign through Mon
tanA-Gen. Bubb with the Fourth Infantry
ana Major Sibley, then, as now,w with tne
Second Cavalry, says the ST. Paul Pioneer
Press.
One little incident Of Lieut.. Bulbs brav-
cry is related by the famous war ooIrespon.
dent, afterward Congressman John f.
Finerty, in his book, "Warpath n biv'
ouac, or the Conquest Of the Sioux Inc
incident occurred in Wyoming In May 1875
It is thus described by Mr.. Firerty:
Some officers informed US that the
ferry between the camp and Fort Fetter.
man had broken down, and that we couid
not get out mail or send dispatches. Ihe
river at that point 10 90 rapid 60
OF whirlpools that few. men care to swim
It and most horses refuse to do co. "A
wago driver, together with a sergeant
and two private soldiers OF the Second
Cavalry tried the experiment OF swimming
their horses over a few days before and
all we're drowned. 1t was absolutely neoes-
sary for us to cross the river.
"When we reached the ferry We FOUND
that it had been'patched up In a temporary
manner and concluded to go across. when
near the Fetterman bank the rope broke
and we should have been swept down the
stream at the imminent risk OF drowning
but for the heroism Of Lieutenant and Com
miesary Bubb, who plunged into the river
on horseback, caught q cable which some
BODY threw toward him and towed us IN
'safety to shore amid the plaudits OF the
spectators" So.
Gen. Bubb was engaged In nearly all OF
the celebrated engagements OF that war.
The "sibley Scout il famous among
Indian fighters as having one OF the mar
roweet escapes from eavages now on record
It was in 1878, at the time Of the Custer
massacre, when Lieutenant Sibiey was or
dared out with twenty-five mounted men
to look about the country and see was
going ON. Frank Grouard. a half breed
and chief OF United States scouts. accom-
panied Sibley. The young officer was fresn
from West Point and rather Inexperienced
In frontier warfare, 40 cautious Gen. CROOK
babe him heed the scouts advice should
emergency arise, and of the trooper started
almost at the. same hour when Custer, a
hundred miles away, was being cut TO pieces
by the cutthroats Of Sitting Bull
Mr.. Finerty was also on this expedition.
He tells first in his book OF his meeting
with Lieutenant Sibley and later has a page
portrait of Lieutenant Sibley and devotes q
chapter to "The Sibley Soout-A Close
Call" In describing his introduction to
Lieutenant Sibley he says:
Capt. Sutorlus introduced me to two
officers of the Second Cavalry, Capt. Wells
and Lieut.. Sibley. Lieut., Sibley, with
whose career l was destined to be linked
under circumstances which subsequently
attracted the attention Of the Continent,
and which will long live in the tales and
traditions Of our regular army, was a young
West Pointer, who had distinguished him
self under Gen. Reynolds in the attack
upon and capture Of Crazy Horse on March
II OF that e~ventful year. Joe De Parthe
In his Life and Adventures OF Frank
Grouard, Chief OF Scouts, y also has q full
pare portrait Of Lieut.. sibley and a chapter
called "A Miraculous EecaPe,' describing
the incident Of which Major Sibley was the
hero.
The incident was as follows The scout
ing party travelled two days without Incl
dent. As they neared the mountains
Gtouard, who always travelled ahead
Of the soldiers, suddenly signalled to halt.
| Signs Of Indians were seen. From an
eminenoe commanding a vast area Of
! rolling country little speoks could be seen
here and there. The glass proved that
each speck wa a squad OF several Sioux
in war costume. The srecks began to
concentrate. They moved toward the trail
made by the troops, but without d covering
IL for q long time. They were entirely
ignorant of the presence OF the soldiers.
After holding a rowwow one OF the INDIANS
CHANGED to ride toward the teltale trail.
He found it and returned to the other braves,
waving his blanket and gesticulatlng. II
then seemed to the young cav airy. officer as
though Indians fairly eprapg from the
earth in all directions TO zee what had been
| discovered. There were swarms OF them,
but happily they were miles away. Then
began the race for life.
The horses were urged up the o