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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UJ <a: Q.LlI X h- Li. o z < X g X L73 TULAROSA SAVED BY TWENTY-FIVE CAVALRYMEN ON the second day of January, 1880, Victoria and his band of Indians were re-ported raiding and murdering in Southern New Mexico, whereupon all thecavalry in that section of the country were sent out at once to round up this notedchief and his thieving band. The Mescalero Agency at the Fort Stanton Reservation had largely served as abase of supplies and recruits for the raiding parties of Victoria, and it was determinedto disarm and dismount the Indians then on the reservation and thus cut oJBE thesupplies of the raiders. Generals Pope and Ord, commanding the Departments of theMissouri and Texas, arranged that a force under Colonel E. Hatch, Ninth Cavalry,numbering 400 cavalry, 60 infantry and 75 Indian scouts, should arrive at the Mes-calero Agency simultaneously with Colonel Grierson and a force of the Tenth Cav-alry and Twenty-fifth Infantry. These two forces set out early in January andmarched tow

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