Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-09-14

Here are interesting excerpts from Mr. Titles
address:
Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, the greatest cavalry
chief the world ever saw and one Of the greatest
Indian fighters we ever had on the border said
in his report Of November l. 1860, that in the
last six years the Indians along the border had
murdered more than eight hundred men, women
and children. The Seventh United States cavalry
and the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Kansas regi-
ments carried the campaign against the south
western Indans-the Cheyennes Apaches, Kio-
was and the COmanches. The Eighteenth Kansas
cavalry was organized under circular Of June
q, 1867 from military headquarters for the Dl-
vision Of Missouri and was mustered in at Fort
Harker, Kan, from July 13 to 49, 1867, and mus
tered out there November Is, 1867. An epidemic
Of cholera attacked the Eighteenth Immediately
at Fort Harker and twenty Of them died
Companies and fought the Cheyenne In
dams on Prairie Dog creek on August p and %.
Major Armes of the Tenth United States cavalry
commended the officers and men in the highest
terms. They preserved the state of Kansas from
further Indian depredations at that time. On Au-
gust 80 Maj. H. L. Moore Of the Eighteenth and
his men fought the same Indians again. This
gentleman Of my predecessors in the
congress Of the United States, having served in
the Fifty-thlrd congress- and he afterwards served
as commanding officer of the Nineteenth Kansas,
being lieutenant colonel, l believe. The lieuten-
ant colonies of both the Nineteenth and Tween
teth Kansas have served in these halls. The
campaign made by the Eighteenth Kansas in 1867
drove the Indians to winter quarters and left the
frontier settlements of Kansas in comparative
peace
The following year the Nineteenth Kansas
mustered in by companies from October 20 to %,
1863 at Topeka, and mustered out at Fort Hays,
Kans., April 49, 1S69-organized under authority
of q telegram from the secretary Of war to Lieut..
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman dated october
6, 1868. On November s. 1868, the regiment
moved from Topeka toward the Arkansas river,
crossing at Wichita marched southwest, and joined
the Seventh United States cavalry near the junction
of Beaver creek and North Canadian, 112 miles
south OF Fort Dodge, at the Camp Supply canton
ment. Owing to severe snowstorms and the en-
tanglements of the CimarrOn canyons, the regl-
ment reached Camp Supply at the end Of the
month. General Sheridan says:
"The regiment lost its way, and becoming
tangled in the canyons of the Cimarron and in
the deep snow, 1t could not make its way out and
was in bad fix. 1t had been subslstlng
on buffalo for eight or nine days. officers
and men behaved admirably in the trying cond.
ton in which they were placed"
General Sheridan tells of their march down the
Washita, and says:
1.-The still the ground and the
weather very cold but the officers and men were
very cheerful, although the men had only shelter
tents. We moved due south until struck the
Washita, near Clusters fight of November 81, hay.
ing crossed the main Canadian, with the Their.
mometer about IS degrees below zero. On the
next day we started down the Washlta, following
the Indian trail but finding so many deep ravnes
and canyons thought would move out on the
divide, but n binding snowsorm coming on and
fearing to get lost with large command and
and trains of wagons on treeless prairie without
water we We're forced back to the banks Of the
Washita, where we at least could get wood and
water
The result Of this campaign was that Santanta
and Lone Wolf, chiefs Of the Klowas were taken