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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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efore us was one that taxed ourenergies to the utmost, but finally, about 5 oclock, we succeeded in getting acrossthis canyon and to the right and rear of the Indians; and then the fun began.Troop I ran into their pony herd, killed the herders and captured the entire lot.Up to this time the Indians apparently were not aware of our presence, and hadstarted in to make a counter attack on Troop I, but our fire on their flanks soonbrought to their mind the fact that there was somebody else there, and they beganto fight for some way to get oat and escape. Troop E was deployed near the edgeof the canyon, and it was my good luck to have command of the left wing and tofall in with Al Seiber, one of the most noted scouts and guides in Arizona and NewMexico. I had been in several fights before this, but never found them very excitingaffairs, as the Apache is not given to exposing himself for theatrical effect like theSioux and the Cheyenne, but merely keeps behind a rock, well hidden, waiting a
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I TOLD HIM TO LIE QUIET. — 291 — chance to kill without taking any chance whatever himself. On this occasion, how-ever, as we advanced it became absolutely necessary for them to get out of theentrenchments they had hastily prepared and run, and for the first time I had achance to shoot at something as well as to be shot at, Seiber, who was on myimmediate left, would call out once in a while: There he goes! and would raisehis rifle and shoot, and sure enough, an Indian would jump up from behind a rock,not more than 150 yards away, and, with a shriek, throw up his hands and fall.Directly they began running in bunches and things became highly exciting.I called on my men to advance, saying that some of these Indians were myscouts and now was our chance to get even with them for their treachery of the yearbefore. With this idea in mind, I, with eight or ten men, started across a small ra-vine, beyond which we could see the main camp of the,Indians. As I started through the forest, whic

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