The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1921-04-07

GENERALS n. =. lilies, king AID
OTHERS AT ANNUAL FEAST
OF pLAlNS WARRIORS.
REVIEW The OLD CAMPAIGNS
Tales Of Valor and Hardships Told by
Men Who Conquered the Red Men
Even While They Felt Pity for
Them.
By EDWARD g. CLARK.

Them
Bv EDWARD p CLARK
Washington nm. n,.,,.,,,.,,in,
drew TO WASHINGTON mann, NO., ,,hn
had - secondary ,,urp,.. f., .,.,i,..,
here. and This sncnpd,r, ,,,r,,,,.. ,..,.
not office se,5,inu There L,. ms, Ln.,,
held here the annual dinner nf rl,. or.
der of Indian Wars. and i, certainly
was a fine lot of old v,ur,.inr. of ib.
plains WHO sat about tie board AND
lived over The DAYS when tlcy v..r, %,
the trail of the Eiowos Commentaries
Arapahce> Apaches Sioux and N;.z
Perce.
Among those who met ,t thi. dinner
were Gen. Nelson Milo. Cnn
Charles King. Gcn. William = Ham
Gen Anson Mills Gen. Charles I,red-
eric Humphrey ana Gen Wild. =
Richardson. and q lot OF other officers
Younger i'm wears. but none OF whom
by any means could fac, considered .,
youth
General King Of NIilwaukcc who i.
known all over Tho cn,,rt,., 81. g, ,o,.,l
list and who brron his .frtinr r,,,,,..,
OH fact" writing when he was C,ptoir
King, told the story of the Siou> cam.
puien of IS7I-TG. Today i'm rbc ovor-
Shudowing deeds of the .,rrnt war Tho
deeds and har,Ishns OF rhr mon VIII.
fought ON the plains are AMI to hr fo,.
gotten. II can lac said. bn,y.var wit.
perfect truth that no American .snIdi.r
of the war which has iu.t ended went
through worse experiences than thos.
of their elder comrades who. in broil
ing summer and freezing winter. hln,-
cry and hulf-clad. hung ON The trail OF
tie elusive red warriors.
Sympathy fer the Indian.
Before going any further Ter if he
said that all through the stories That
were told at tie Indian Wars dinner
ran the notes oL sympathy for the In
dams whom these men had fought. Ii
c;,n be said that in this latter day
these soldiers of the Indian wars ,.hn
had hcCH true 10 thci,. duty, di>tuSictul
az ii was Sill feel Resentment ,ha; il
WAS necessary for tErm 10 ,r.:;.-., in =
kill.u- warfare with ihp Il,i;Yr.. .,r th.,
West.
General King to.d of a command uf
troops which, although it HAD suffered
at the hands of tie CLcyv mes. had
such sympathy and admiration for the
foemen that the soldiers begged the In
dams to surrender and not To continue
the battle which meant virtually their
determination.
The stories of those days on the Big
Horn the Belle Touches and Tive Rose
bud, and on the plains Of western Kan
SaS, of Colorado and the Panhandle of
Texas, to say nothing of the mountains
of Arizona. may sound like ancient his
tory, but they were as vivid in recital
as if they were the affairs of yester-
day. Tales of toilsome marches, with
the troops subsisting upon horsemeat.
with no bread or coffee or tobacco to
sustain them or to cheer them. were
the same stories that were told i'm the
East constantly from thirty 10 fifty
years ago, and yet brought no proper
appreciation of the suffering and the
high cndeavor of the men who were
carrying out the mandate of their SOW
eminent.
General Miles, the greatest of the
Indian fighters who still is living. told
VI HIS pun sui VI sNllilIE bul, ana lOlC
also of his successful attcmpt to max.
bands of raidlng Sioux surrender and
give over the attacks ON the sc.de-
ments Miles fought the Indians and
Won their respect, but he knew also
how to talk to them when possible, ana
to bring their feet into the peace path.
Their Confidence in Miles.
one story he told of an interview
with the orator Little Chief. of tribe
which he was trying to induce TO re-
turn to the reservation 20 that warrior
lives might not be lost i'm what must be-
AN unequal battle. Little Chief said to-
the general, i'm a picturesque Indian.
way which cannot be reproduced here.
that once he had been i'm Washington
To interview the Great Father and that
the Great Father had promised that
the white man should not go into the
Black Hills country. for that was get