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Title: The blue and the gray, or, The Civil War as seen by a boy : a story of patriotism and adventure in our war for the Union
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: White, Annie Randall
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Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
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ticularly the work on the Southern Pacific, as it interfered withtheir hunting. The General would not accede to these demands,but promised that any loss they suffered should be made goodto them. September 18, 1868, the Indians attacked our troops atRepublican River, and Lieutenant Beecher and several otherofficers were murdered. In 1871 the Apaches killed over 200white settlers, not in battle, but skulking in ambush, and shoot- ing them whereverthey met them. The whites metthe Indians at WashitaRiver, and defeatedthem, November 27,1868. Thus the continualoutbreaks of the In-dians, have been asource of trouble andanxiety to the govern-ment, which has soughtto adjust the claims ofthe red men in a fairand just manner.That the latter haveoften been cheated androbbed by unscrupulousagents and traders, noone can deny, but the fact still remains that the Indian natureis peculiarly hard to subdue, and their natural instincts are cruel.There are, fortunately, many bright examples among several
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BUFFALO BILL, A FOE OF THE INDANS.

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