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Rewarding Brave Men

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
January
Year
1875
Copyright
Public Domain
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The New York World saya: A gallant deed has jubt been fiüy honored by tho War Department, which lias presented medkls to Sergt. Woodhull privates Harringtou and Roth, and soouts Chapruau and Dixon, of Gen. Milos' commaud. The ix men wre surprisod by one humlred ííaá twenty Indkos, wh- pouied a olley upon them, BtampediDg tber hors s and wounding ovcxy ouo of their number, one fatally. Digging a ahallo-w trench with their knives in the sanaj soil, tüey held their savnge assaüa'its ut bay till nighttime, wlen tho latter withdrew, oarrying off sonie fiftcen of their number killed. Several times the spldiers i i t„ ..„„ Hoi wvm-ii ra to repei tno charges oL thoir f oes, al .vas:-; ]'fe one cartridgo for the P Fest üo knowledge of bis beiug dwablecí Bhonld e.courage the Iudians Tho Iong figiit, too, was ruado under achilHnfr.in; th.t hbwever fnrnished them with water, thougU th.y drank mingled with it thoir own blood. tood thev had nono. So galhmt and cluyalrous a resistance merited notlnrg less than the high praise of Gou. Miles m his dispatchea, and the rêoognrtion of the War Department jnst ohromoicd. Some prospecters are prospootinK in the Southern States, with a view of ünding places for 80,000 English laborera ; aiidif they report favorably.so mapy helpers will ba added to the raduhtnal interes ts of the South.

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Old News
Michigan Argus