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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doctor of the outfit was killed early in the day; Colonel Forsythwas dangerously wounded in three places. Before 10 oclock a bullet piercedhis right thigh; later another shattered his left leg at the knee, and in the afternoona third one grazed his skull, scooping the bone. Two other men were dead, twomortally and sixteen more or less severely wounded. Every horse and mule hadbeen killed. Towards evening a drizzling rain began to fall, adding to the discomfort, dreari-ness and hopelessness of the situation. Fort Wallace, the nearest place from whichhelp might be obtained, was almost 100 miles away. But the little band, encouraged by the marvelous example of their leader, didnot despair, They dug a well through the sand, stripped meat off the dead horsesand mules and strengthened their line of defense with saddles and the bodies of thedead animals. Towards midnight two men, Pierre Trudeau and John Stillwell, leftthe camp to reach Fort Wallace, if possible, and summon relief. By unusual
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I- _l < COen< < LlI a:<J \-(/) O \- o UJQliJIjjOO cc 0- cnz<o — 141 — care, combined with good luck, they accomplished their task. Wearing moc-casins they had made from boot-tops and with blankets wrapped around them Indianfashion, they managed to crawl through the lines of the hostiles in the first night,making three miles. The next day they spent lying hidden in a washout betweenthe Arickaree and the South Republican. During the second night they continuedtheir dangerous trip, meeting and avoiding several parties of Indians, and towardsdaybreak they reached the South Republican. The next day they spent like thefirst, lying concealed under the river bank; the Indians swarmed all around them,and it was a wonder to themselves that the wily savages failed to discover them.During the third day they were lying in a bison swallow when some scouting Indianscame within thirty yards of their cover and Stillwell had to quiet an alarming rattle-snake by spitting tobacco juice

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