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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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ossed the creek and wasabout entering the limits of the camp. Colonel Carr told Captain E. C. Hentig toquietly warn the Indians away from the camp, and directed Lieutenant W. H.Carter, regimental quartermaster, to separate the scouts and put them in camp.These two officers walked only a few paces to where the Indians were. LieutenantCarter called the scouts and directed Sergeant Dead Shot to put them in camp.The scouts left the other Indians, but appeared uneasy and demurred about campingbecause of numerous hills of large red ants, common to all parts of Arizona. Thescouts arranged themselves at intervals along the crest of the mesa, or tableland,which had been selected as a camp ground. Captain Hentig passed a few yards beyond the scouts and called out to theIndians, to all of whom he was well known through his five years of service at CampApache, Ukashe, which means Go away. As he raised his hand to motion tothem, a half-witted young buck fired and gave the war cry. The long-delayed
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THE WOUNDED MEN WERE RESCUED BY LIEUTENANT CARTER. — 2«6 — explosion took place at the moment when the men on foot had been warned not toshow any signs of expecting a fight. Captain Hentig and his orderly, who was between him and Lieutenant Carter,fell at the first volley, but the bodies of the wounded men were rescued by Lieuten-ant Carter and carried to the rear. The dismounted men of Troop D seized theirarms; the small headquarters guard, engaged in putting up a tent for Colonel Carr,advanced on the scouts with brave Sergeant Alonzo Bowman in the lead, and openedfire. At this time there were more than 100 Indians besides the scouts in camp, andless than forty dismounted men engaged in a hand-to-hand conflict. Colonel Carr walked calmly towards the position just vacated by the mutinousscouts and called firmly to the guard. Kill the Medicine Man ! Sergeant McDonald,who was in charge of the guard, flred, wounding Nockay det Klinne through boththighs, but the sergeant was immediat

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