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Identifier: deedsofvalorhowa02beye (find matches)
Title: Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Beyer, Walter F Keydel, Oscar F. (Oscar Frederick), b. 1871
Subjects: United States. Army United States. Navy
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Perrien-Keydel Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ne came toward me and was calling, whensuddenly I heard him say: Oh, my God! Look-ing around, I saw him lying on his side, and I thenknew he had been hit. Hartzog ran to him andcarried him back behind the hill. That left mealone with Green. I said: By God! Ill make empay for that, and ran the gun fairly into the opening of the ravine and tried to makeevery shot count. The Hotchkiss was a single-shot affair and had to be pulled offwith a lanyard. They kept yelling at me to come back, and I kept yelling for acool gun—there were three more on the hill not in use. Bullets were coming likehail from the Indians Winchesters. The wheels of my gun were bored full of holesand our clothing was marked in several places. Once a cartridge was knocked outof my hand just as I was about to put it in the gun, and its a wonder the cartridgedidnt explode. I kept going in farther, and pretty soon everything was quiet at theother end of the line. Then the other guns came down. I expected a court-martial,
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PAUL H. WEINERT, Corporal, Battery E, First U. S. Artillery.Born in Pennsylvania, July 15,1869. — 326 — but what was my surprise when gruff old Allyn Capron, my captaiu, came up to meand grasped me by the shoulders and said to the officers and men: Thats the kindof men I have in my battery. As has been stated before, a party of Indians, after the first few volleys, managedto break through the troops and escape to the ravine near by. They were pursued,and during the fighting that occurred here many acts of bravery were performed,notably by First Lieutenant John C. Gresham, who voluntarily led the pursuingparty, and Sergeants William J. Austin, Albert H. McMillan and Private ThomasSullivan, all of Troop E, Seventh United States Cavalry, who were also awarded theMedal. Following this battle, reports of which had aroused the hostiles to the highestpitch of excitement, came an attack on the Catholic Mission at Clay Creek, Decem-ber 30th. The Seventh Cavalry had just gone into camp afte

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