The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1926-07-22

the honor of joint resolution OF thanks by
congress.
Recognized as the Fifth Regiment of Cavalry
on August 8, 1851, and participating in four
minor engagements before receiving it's baptism
of fire at the Battle of Bull Run, this organiza-
ton soon justified its of "the Fighting
Fifth" When the ended it could have writ
ten it's banners the following names York
town. Kinney's Farm Cold Harbor, Malvern Hill,
Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg Brandy
Station, Mine Run, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania,
Trevilian Station Petersburg Winchester, Cedar
Creek, Dinwiddie Court House, Five Forks and
Appomattox, not to mention nearly 200 other en-
gagements during the four years of the war.
But 1t was in the years following the Civil
that the Fifth it's greatest laurels and
that in the most thankess task in the world
savage warfare. Ordered to the Kansas frCntier
late in 1863 the regiment under the command
of Maj. w. B. Royal arrived Fort Hays
soon after the celebrated battle of Beecher's
Island between the company of scouts com
handed by Gen. G. A. Forsyth and the Dog Sol
der Cheyennes under Roman Nose. General SHEER
idan, who then In the field, Immediately
ordered Major Royal to go in pursuit of these
Indians Royal failed to find the hostilities, but
a short time later under the command of NAL
Eugene A. Carr, seven troops of the Fifth fought
a two-day engagement with the Indians on Beaver
and Prairie Dog creeks and drove them out Of
the state
This was the beginning Of the Fifths brilliant
career in Indian fighting. Intimately associated
with it is the career of the man who became
the regiments favorite scout William F. Cody
buffalo Bill) and that of the unique organtza-
tion known the Pawnee Scouts, commanded by
Maj. Frank North and his brother, Capt. Luther
III. North The next year, 1869, saw the Fifth
almost constantly in the field and under the
command Of General Carr (although he was only
a major in the Fifth, Carr had risen to the rank
of brevet major general Of volunteers during the
Civil wary it performed noteworthy service in
Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado where it
fought half dozen engagements eliminating in
the now famous battle at Summit Springs Colo.
Here Carr with seven troops OF the Fifth, three
companies of Pawnee Scouts and Buffalo Bill
as chief guide, surprised the camp of Tall Bull
killed 81 Indians, among them Chief Tall Bull
who fell before the rifle of Frank North cap
tured 400 horses and mules rescued white wom-
captive, and destroyed the camp. This battle
put end to the activities of one of the worst
Indian raiders Of his time and helped bring peace
to frontier country which had been harried by
hostile Indians for more than five years
The next service of the Fifth was in the blax-
ing deserts and barren mountains of Arizona,
trailing and fighting Apache Indians in the most
trying kind of warfare that the spdiery of
nation ever called upon to endure. Here
again reference to the official records will show
the aptness of the term Fighting Fifth" From
April 25 1872, to January 20, 1875. these records
show total OF nearly 200 separate expeditions,
scouts. skirmishes and engagements. Or to pur