The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-07-12
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'SHG HIS OWN HORSE
A Tile Of a Military Buffalo
Hunt.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
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Johnny Come Lately-that's what
We dubbed him. He certainly was
$plenddly constructed; about six feet
TALL, wy fair-complex.oned and with
d as handsome as a picture, with an
aasy lgish move and a merry twinkle
lin his eve which it was hard for
1ohnns to hide even when he tried
ID GOD severe, for he was military,
was Jimmy. All West Pointers are,
when hey first join their regiment,
Lieut.. Biddle (our Johnny being no
exception to the rule, and when he
bined our troop X, Seventh United
states cavalry, at Fort Lincoln, D. T.,
Il Seitember, 1876, the above sobri-
uet vas handed out to him and it
| tuck. He would do the funniest
lings, so we thought, but it was all
richly military; he didn't seem to
3alizb at first that he had struck
ginl knt of real troopers and that we
( wAS1ie-e to protect the frontier, not
Id Fhicy. These nice little military
pd Chen Lieut.. Biddle was on duty
W StInst the grain, but he was
m ry inch Of his six feet, and
SO no favorites, only just a lit
/ tld ,lilitary at first. But that wore
.oh otie.,
| "a hard campaign the follow
in inner of n the seventh, about
= US. of September, struck the
II river cantonment on the Vel
6e, and had only one little
i1with the Indians, about 600
- to "a Indians. They tried to
e but we captured them all ex-
our and they went to the happy
Tg grounds Now Johnny was
18TH didn't say much, but wanted
to#f4. After we corralled the Chey-
en- we turned them over to Gen.
M at Cedar Greek on the Yellow
ST This was in June, and John
ny rtainly looked disappointed when
hetdn't even get go at the In
dia. Our troop that day was rear
qua. A few days later we struck
a Id Of buffalo, probably 5000, scat
ter over about ten miles or more of
teroTy. Two men we're detailed out
of Ech of five companies to make q
kilgI All the officers knew Lient.
Bids desire for adventure and he
waklt in charge Of the ten men. He
rod a crackerjack Of a horse; his
eye5hone like diamonds, and before
weruck the first few old bulls he
call me to him and said, "stine,
yos been raised in this country,
hart you?"
rs, sir, l said"
low all about killing hufaloes?"
9ne little" l replied.
w don't want to go wrong
onis hunt" said the lieutenant.
"aiI don't want any mjshap nor do
! vt the command to have the laugh
one Now, I'm ordered not to kill
ov'25, but there you see they are
staeding already
Sc what you want, said. Hold
70 bride with the left hand and
Gale in the right; dash into the
hehnd keep going with EN-; don't
sto pay no attention to your right
ha1side, they will keep away from
yopNow pick the cow-always nick
a Wig COW, they can run faster and
it Us a good horse to outrun them.
Ridlp on the right hand side. lean
owe little toward the buffalo. throw
youcarbine in the hollow Of your
leftm and blaze away Put, Lieu
ten don't shoot too quick; wait un-
til ur saddle is just opposite the
bru hump, for the minute YOU hit
one it don't go down theyn turn
Qui'rn creased lightning and catch
youorse in the flank as he goes by.
Novon't stop. whatever you do: lust
keeloing with the herd and when
you ink you have killed enough