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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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m the Department of Arizona,but the campaign resolved itself into a chase of the hostiles from one range of moun-tains to another, with frequent skirmishes but no decisive fights, until the Indiansagain escaped into Old Mexico. One fight took place at Tularosa on the 14th ofMay which is described by Sergeant George Jordan, Troop K, Ninth Cavalry, as follows: On the 11th of May I was ordered to Old Fort Tularosa with a detachment oftwenty-five men of the Ninth Cavalry for the purpose of protecting the town ofTularosa, just outside the fort. Besides our own rations we had extra rations for therest of the regiment which was pursuing Victorias band of Apaches. On the secondday out we struck the foothills of the mountains, where our advance guard met twotroops of Mexican cavalry. The captain of one of them told me that it would beimpossible for me to get through with the small body of men I had, and advised meto return to the regiment. 1 replied that my orders were to go through and that 1
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I-o X if) Q UJ cco z X o z< CO ollJen cca.tr intended to do so, notwithstanding the fact that large bodies of hostiles were stillroaming about outside the Mescalero Agency. After leaving our Mexican friends wepushed along with our wagon-train bringing up the rear, until that evening westruck the Barlow and Sanders stage station, where we went into camp. At the sta-tion all was excitement. The people were throwing up breastworks and diggingtrenches in the expectation of an attack by the Indians. My command, being dis-mounted cavalry, was pretty well exhausted from our days march over the moun-tains and we were all ready for a good nights rest; but within an hour after ourarrival at the station, and just before sundown, a rider from Tularosa came in andwanted to see the commander of the soldiers. He told me that the Indians were inthe town and that he wanted me to march- the men the remainder of the distance tosave the women and children from a horrible fate. My men were in bad condi

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