The Dolores star., 1922-09-22

Here are interesting excerpts from Mr. Lttle's
address
Gen. Philip II. Sheridan the greatest cavalry
chief the world ever saw, and one of the greatest
Indian fighters ever had on the border, said
in his report of November l. 1869, 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 on the campaign against the south
western Indians-the Cheyennes. Apaches, Kio-
and the Comanches The Eighteenth Kansas
cavalry was organized under a circular of June
81, 1867, from military headquarters for the d.
vision of Missouri, and mustered in at Fort
Harker Kan, from July 13 to 49, 1867, and mus
tered out there November 10, 1867. An epidemic
of cholera attacked the Eighteenth Immediately
at Fort Harker and twenty of them died.
Companies b and C fought the Cheyenne In.
dians Prairie Dog creek on August 81 and %.
Major Arrnes 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 so Maj II. 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-thrd congress, and he afterwards served
as commanding officer of the Nineteenth Kansas,
being lieutenant colonel, believe. The lieuten-
ant colonels of both the Nineteenth and Twen-
teth Kansas have served in these halls Inc
campaign made by the Eighteenth NaHshS III io''
drove the Indians to winter quarters and lett Inc
frontier settlements of Kansas in comparative
peace.
The following year the Nineteenth Kansas was
mustered in by companies from october ~ 10 ~
1865 at Topeka, and mustered out at Fort rays
Kons April 49, 1S69-organized under authority
of n telegram from the secretary of war to Lieut..
Cen william Tecumseh Sherman, dated OCTOBER
q 1865 On November 5, 1868, the regiment
moved from Topeka toward the Arkansas river,
crossing at Wichita marched southwest ana Joiheu
the Seventh United States cavalry near the 1uhcuoh
Of Beaver creek and North Canadian IL miles
south of Fort Dodge, at the Camp Supply canton
ment Owing to severe snowstorms ana the en-
tonclements of the Cimarron canyons, the regl-
ment reached Camp Supply at the end OF the
MONTH General Sheridan says:
.Tho regiment lost its way, and, becoming en-
tangled in the canyons of the Cimarron and in
fhe deep snow, 1t could not make its way out and
was in bad fix IL hau oeen supsstihs
on buffalo for eight or nine days ohicers
and men behaved admirably in the trying condi'
tion in which they were placed
General Sheridan tells of their march down the
Washita, and says:
"Tha snow was still on the ground ard the
weather very cold, but the officers and men were
t,.rv cheerful although the men had only shelter
,rts We moved due south until we struck the
wosbito near Clusters fight of November p. hav-
Ing crossed the main Canadian, with the ther-
mometer about IS degrees below zero On the
noxt dav we started down the Washita, Following
,ho Indian trail; but finding many deep ravines
and CANYONS thought we would move out on the
divide but a binding snowstorm coming on and
foorjnp to get lost with large command and
and trains of wagons on treeless prairie without
uoter we were forced back to the banks OF the
,,,ashito whore we Mt least could get wood and
water. 49,. Someone.
aud Lone Wolf. chiefs Of the Kiowas. were taken