The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1916-08-05
THE GALLANT 10th CAVALRY
HATS OFF!
(This editorial closes Isaac Fishers
work ON TusNpppp Farmer


without Christian burial but with |
bodies cold and stark upon the ,
ground bodies pierced by bullets OF |
steel--under the withering heat by /
day and watched by thesilent moon
and stars by night, unpiied out
there, save Ivy "a merciIul God
somewhere in strlfc-,orn Mexico,
there rest in death the hover of the
gallant Tenth Cavalry-Negro sol
diers, who wore the uniform OF the
United States of America.
The story of "a Battle.
We have not all the facts (June |
26); but on June q, 1916, General
Frederick Funston reported that
There was "a clash this morning at |
Carrizal, near Villa Ahumada, be |
tween CarranZa and American troops |
in which General Gomez and others |
were killed, the number unknown |
The number OF American killed or |
wounded unknown" The report !
further stated that the Americans |
were docoyed into a trap by flag OF
truce; and that it was believed that |
the American troops were the Tenth !
Cavalry.
On June 22, it became definitely
known that troops & and OF the
Tenth Cavalry, colored, were the
American soldiers in the engage
ment and that they held the field
for five hours before retreating, al
though they were outnumbered
to l."
On June %, seven survivors of
those engaged in the battle at Car
rial struggled into the American
headquarters and General Pcrshing
reported to our Government that the
American cavalry command engaged
Mt Carrizal was the object OF
treacherous attack by CarranZa sol
diers and virtually was wiped out
The manner and cause OF this
''wiping out" is pertinent:
Reaching a point within one mile
of Carrizal on the morning OF June
2l. Ccotain Boyd, senior officer in
command of troops { and u, sent a
note to General Gomez, Mexican
commander. asking permission to
pass through the town. General Go
mez requested conference with Cap
tain Boyd before granting the re-
quest; and a flag Of truce was raised
while the two sides conferred.
Mark now although the truce
should have prevented this, just as
the conference concluded, terrible
Mexican machine gun began pouring
a hail Of bullets into the ranks OF the
Tenth Cavalry. Let the Associated
Press finish the story:
Captain Boyd had ordered his
men to dismount as the machine gun
opened fire, and the combined ehort
OF the Mexican charge, the mAcuin,
gun fire and the rifle fire from the
Mexican garrison at CarriZal, which
had almost, surrounded the little
American force under cover oi the
parley sought by General Gomez,
stampeded the horses.
with their mounts gone, caught
without means OF escape, rinGed
about on three sides with the fire OF
an Overwhelming force the fate OF the
little detachment is believed by oill-
GERS here to have been sealed.
1T is thought that only the most
stupendous luck backed by desperate
yalor could have eXtricated Captain
Boyds men from the trap.
Since these reports, we have hau
very little real news as to how many
OF our boys were massacred; but we
know that the flower OF the com
mand have been sent to their death
or disabled.
How Did They Die? How Fight:
How did these soldiers die? Ihey
died as they had lived since they pu'
on the uniform-like brave men
They have been praised again aho
again for their bravery, soldlerlS
qualities and great value to the ser
vice OF the United States. But let
read the record;
General Pershing leading the eN
pedition into MeXico) reported tha
the troops under Captain Boyd ah'
Captain Morey showed the creates
courage and exhibited the most sler
ling fighting qualities -.
Said another message from th'
American field headquarters
Trapped and lighting asalhs
heavy odds, the troops OF the l'Atl
Cavalry, engaged at CarrlEal o.
Wednesday, charged twice dlrecll
into the laws of the ambush whlcI
the MeXicans had laid for them.
But there is still another tribute
which we must preserve Tor al
times. Speaking of the bloody BATH
of the Alamo and the brave Amer
cans who, trapped like rats, CAV
their lives there for their country
the editor OF The Atlanta Constltu
lon declares that the stand mos
white Americans mads at that Dloou
place "will ever be recorded aS Oh
of the most notable heroic ihciaeh'
OF world history"
Now mark the following trlDu'
from that writer:
"And SO IL seems that Carrihai Is
become another Alamo! WIN u
same trap, the same heroic deiehs
the same disnlaY OF AmCrICAn ncrl