The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-09-22

prisoners, and by threat OF execution that tribe
was forced to report at Fort Cobb, together with
the Comanches and Apaches. and finally induced
to go on their reservation.
From Fort Cobb the command marched TO the
base of the WashIta mountains and established
Fort SILL near Medicine Bluff. On the I'd OF
March following the Nineteenth Kansas cavalry
and the Seventh United States cavalry, under the
command Of General Custer, went in pursuit Of
the Cheyennes.
The Cheyenne trail struck Salt Fork on
the 9th Of March, 1862 and followed to the north
along the eastern edge of the Lano Estacado
until the Goth of March, when the Cheyennes were
caught camped Sweetwater creek about ten
miles of the line OF Texas This
march made practically without transporta-
ton or adequate supplies. and for the last few
days the men subslsted mule meat without
bread salt.
General Sheridan, General Custer and Colonel
Moore, with the soldiers OF the Eighteenth Kan
sas the Nineteenth Kansas and the Seventh Unit
ed States and Tenth United States cavalry res
cued the women prisoners from the Indians In the
Texas Panhandle and drove the Indians far into
the Llano Estacado and preserved southwestern
Kansas for all time. practically from Indian as
saults They followed and fought the Indians In
driving storms at times with resources but the
buffalo they killed and the obligations the South
west is under to them have never really been ac-
knowedged by the government OF the United
States
The most romantic feature of the campaign was
the rescue OF the women from Logan county Kan
sas. whom they found In the Panhandle among
the Indians, whom they beat after a fierce fight
Capt John O. A. Norton OF Lawrence Kan who
is credited with marching alone in front Of n Con.
federate batter told me personally the par.
tIculars OF that episode. tale that would do
credit TO the pen Of Dumas. AS General Custer
say. in his report
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women, and that, too without ransom. the men
Of my command and particularly those OF the
Nineteenth Kansas who were called into service
owing 10 the murders and depredations Of which
the capture OF these women formed a part, feel
more fully repaid for the hardshlps they have en-
dured than II they had survived an overwhelming
victory over the Indians"
Col II. C. Lindsey Of the Twenty second Kan
sas In the Spanish war. a sergeant major Of
the Nineteenth Kansas under Colonel Moore. Cap
tain Norton soldier of the Civil war then In
1869 young lawyer at Lawrence and an officer
Of exceptional courage and capacity and equip
ment. still lives at Lawrence one Of the forenos,
citizens Of our great state soldier and a gentle
man Of the highest and best type always gentle
caDable courag eous and chiyalric.
The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Kansas were
Tho only volunteer soldiers that the American
government raised in third OF century from
1861 10 1875. They performed a service that had
as many dificniues as an! OF our veterans. They
made campaign romantic and remarkable
os a novelist could depict. They rescued from
tho horrors Of Indian captivity the wives and
dougb,ers of the frontiersmen who made for us
tho Great West and brought II into civilization
rbev have lived In patience for half century
u,itbout any fair or just expression Of apprecia
lion by this republic for their excellent services
An tina, ask now is that you give TO them the
same financial consideration that you give to
o,be. soldiers Of similar accomplishments and
similar heroism.