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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lls on the south side of theCanadian, opposite the agency. The troops under command of Lieutenant-ColonelT. H. Neill, Sixth Cavalry, followed, but the Indians, well supplied with firearmsthey had hidden in that vicinity, occupied a difficult hill and defended themselvesagainst the troops for several hours until nightfall. By night the troops had forcedtheir way nearly to the crest of the hill occupied by the Indians, but at daylight itwas found the enemy had fled during the night. Eleven Indians were found dead, andnineteen soldiers were wounded. Troops from other posts in the vicinity wereordered to assist in the pursuit, and eventually most of the Cheyennes gave them-selves up. A party of about sixty or seventy, consisting of the worst criminals of the tribe,who had murdered the Germaine family and others, and being afraid on that accountto surrender with the rest, crossed the Arkansas River west of Fort Dodge andattempted to make their way to the Sioux country, north of the Platte.
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WE SPRANG UP THE BANK AND DIRECTLY INTO THE PIT. — 198 — The commanders of the troops, however, were on the alert, and with quick witthey utilized the then partly completed railways running through Kansas. Lieuten-ant A. Henley was dispatched with forty men of the Sixth Cavalry to chase them byrail and then head them off. On the 23d of April this was accomplished, on theNorth Fork of Sappa Creek, southeast of Fort Wallace, Kansas. It was during thesevere action that followed, and, by conceiving and executing a dangerous movement with a small detail of men, turning the trend of the fight, that Private Marcus M.Robbins and several others of Company H, Sixth Cavalry, won their Medal of Honor.A description of the affair is given by Robbins as follows: In the evening of April 21st a telegram was received by our commanding officerat Fort Lyon, Colorado, stating that the band of hostile Cheyennes, who had madegood their escape, had been fording the Arkansas at the crossing of the Cimmaro

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