Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War: Or, From New England to the Golden Gate, and the Story of His Indian Campaigns, with Comments on the Exploration, Development and Progress of Our Great Western EmpireThis work contains the personal reflections of Nelson A. Miles and focuses on his career as an American military general who served in the American Civil War, the American Indian Wars, and the Spanish-American War. |
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... CROSSING THE HAROS RIVER 441 442 446 447 448 451 454 ONE INDIAN ATTEMPTED TO RIDE BY ME 457 GERONIMO 459 · OUR INDIANS WERE YELLING AND PREPARING TO FIGHT 464 THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN CRAWFORD 466 APACHES WATCHING THE TROOPS WITH GLASSES ...
... CROSSING THE HAROS RIVER 441 442 446 447 448 451 454 ONE INDIAN ATTEMPTED TO RIDE BY ME 457 GERONIMO 459 · OUR INDIANS WERE YELLING AND PREPARING TO FIGHT 464 THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN CRAWFORD 466 APACHES WATCHING THE TROOPS WITH GLASSES ...
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... Crossing Into Mexico - Methods of the Indian Scouts - Little Mexican Towns and Their People - Mescal , and Its Use by Indians - First News of the Hostiles - Beginning of a Mountain March on Foot - Abandoned Camps The Devil's Backbone ...
... Crossing Into Mexico - Methods of the Indian Scouts - Little Mexican Towns and Their People - Mescal , and Its Use by Indians - First News of the Hostiles - Beginning of a Mountain March on Foot - Abandoned Camps The Devil's Backbone ...
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... crossing of the Rappahannock ; the return to Alexandria ; the embarkation in transports and debarkation at Fort Monroe ; the advance up the Peninsula EDMorgan until face to face with the enemy under General Magruder in his line of ...
... crossing of the Rappahannock ; the return to Alexandria ; the embarkation in transports and debarkation at Fort Monroe ; the advance up the Peninsula EDMorgan until face to face with the enemy under General Magruder in his line of ...
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... crossing the mountains to the head waters of the great Columbia , and there built other boats and floated down the ... crossed the continent , passing over a por- tion of the route followed by Lewis and Clark . After the discovery of ...
... crossing the mountains to the head waters of the great Columbia , and there built other boats and floated down the ... crossed the continent , passing over a por- tion of the route followed by Lewis and Clark . After the discovery of ...
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... Crossing the Ohio at Pittsburg , a day's run through the populous and thriving States of Ohio and Indiana with their ever - present woodlands , extensive clearings , charming villages and busy manufacturing centers , brought me to the ...
... Crossing the Ohio at Pittsburg , a day's run through the populous and thriving States of Ohio and Indiana with their ever - present woodlands , extensive clearings , charming villages and busy manufacturing centers , brought me to the ...
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Page 372 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there...
Page 95 - SAVAGES we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs. Perhaps if we could examine the manners of different nations with impartiality we should find no people so rude as to be without any rules of politeness, or none so polite as not to have some remains of rudeness.
Page 42 - I will meet you, or will designate officers to meet any officers you may name for the same purpose, at any point agreeable to you, for the purpose of arranging definitely the terms upon which the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia will be received.
Page 42 - General: I received at a late hour your note of to-day. In mine of yesterday I did not intend to propose the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army...
Page 95 - Indian men, when young, are hunters and warriors; when old, counsellors; for all their government is by the counsel or advice of the sages; there is no force, there are no prisons, no officers to compel obedience, or inflict punishment. Hence they generally study oratory; the best speaker having the most influence.
Page 210 - IN that desolate land and lone, Where the Big Horn and Yellowstone Roar down their mountain path, By their fires the Sioux Chiefs Muttered their woes and griefs And the menace of their wrath. "Revenge!" cried Rain-in-the-Face, " Revenge upon all the race Of the White Chief with yellow hair!
Page 90 - Newenglanders, had been forlorn and wretched heathen ever since their first herding here; and though we know not when or how these Indians first became inhabitants of this mighty continent, yet we may guess that probably the Devil decoyed those miserable salvages hither, in hopes that the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ would never come here to destroy or disturb his absolute empire over them.
Page 113 - You know the cause of our making war. It is known to all white men. They ought to be ashamed of it.
Page 96 - Offer, tho' we decline accepting it; and to show our grateful Sense of it, if the Gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their Sons, we will take great Care of their Education, instruct them in all we know, and make Men of them.
Page 98 - I may as well go to the meeting too, and I went with him. There stood up a man in black, and began to talk to the people very angrily. I did not understand what he said; but perceiving that he looked much at me, and at Hanson, I imagined...