With Carrington on the Bozeman Road

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A.C. McClurg & Company, 1912 - Bozeman Trail - 411 pages
 

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Page 279 - Fifteen weeks have passed, varied by many skirmishes and both night and day alarms, but that pledge holds good. In every work done your arms have been at hand. In the pine tracts or hay fields, on picket or general guard duty, no one has failed to find a constant exposure to some hostile shaft, and to feel that a cunning adversary was watching every chance to harass and kill. "And yet that pledge holds good. Stockade and block-house, embrasure and loop-hole, shell and bullet, have...
Page 280 - You have built a central post that will bear comparison with any for security, completeness, and adaptation to the ends in view, wherever the other may be located, or however long in erection.* " Surrounded by temptations to hunt the choicest game, and allured by tales of golden treasure just beyond you, you have spared your powder for your foes, and have given the labor of your hands to your proper work. Passing from guard-watching to fatigue-work, and, after one night in bed, often disturbed, returning...
Page 179 - You are the White Eagle who has come to steal the road! The Great Father sends us presents and wants us to sell him the road, but the White Chief comes with soldiers to steal it before the Indian says yes or no! I will talk with you no more! I will go now, and I will fight you! As long as I live I will fight you for the last hunting grounds of my people!
Page 360 - If in my absence, Indians in overwhelming numbers attack, put the women and children in the magazine with supplies of water, bread, crackers and other supplies that seem best, and, in the event of a last desperate struggle, destroy all together, rather than have any captured...
Page 280 - The steam whistle and the rattle of the mower have followed your steps in this westward march of empire. You have built a central post that will bear comparison with any for security, completeness, and adaptation to the ends in view, wherever the other may be located, or however long in erection.* " Surrounded by temptations to hunt the choicest game, and allured by tales of golden treasure just beyond you, you have spared your powder for your foes, and have given the labor of your hands to your...
Page 281 - ... regard your work as scarcely begun, is now to be performed, and to its fulfillment I assign soldiers; neither discharging the duty myself, nor delegating it to some brother officer; but some veteran soldiers of good desert shall share with a sergeant from each of their companies, and the worthy man whose work rises high above us, the honor of raising our new and beautiful garrison flag to the top of the handsomest flag-staff in America. "It is the first full garrison flag that has floated between...
Page 280 - Substantial warehouses, containing a year's supply, spacious and enduring quarters, and a well-appointed magazine are other proofs of your diligence and spirit. The steam whistle and the rattle of the mower have followed your steps in this westward march of empire. You have built a central post that will bear comparison with any for security, completeness, and adaptation to the end in view, wherever the other may be located or however long in erection.
Page 359 - Fire the usual sunset gun, running a white light to masthead. If the Indians appear, fire three guns from the twelve-pounder at minute intervals, and later substitute a red lantern for the white.' Pickets were left on two commanding ridges as signal observers as the command moved forward. The women and children were placed in the magazine, a building well adapted for defense, which had been stocked with water, crackers and various supplies for an emergency, with an officer pledged not to allow...
Page 358 - I will not let the Indians entertain the conviction that the dead cannot and will not be rescued. If we cannot rescue our dead, as the Indians always do, at whatever risk, how can you send out details for any purpose? And that single fact will give them an idea of weakness here, and would only stimulate them to risk an assault.
Page 280 - Company, and the advance of Companies D and G to Fort CF Smith, nearly one hundred miles farther west. All these, like yourselves, having a share in the labor, the exposure, and the conflicts that throughout the whole length of the line attended its occupation, have sustained the good record of the Eighteenth Infantry, and thus, also, have vindicated your pledges. And now, this day, laying aside the worn and battered garments, which have done their part through weeks of toil and struggle...

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