Show NINTHS BATTLESCASRED RECORD I If the Ninth regiment of regular United States Infantry which has just been ordered to China Is called upon to confront a contingent of slicing Boxers In battle array the rank and file of the oulllt will not count It strango that they are facing a foo whose aspect presents something new In time line of enemies The Ninth United States fool has been changing Its foes with marked regularity for something over one hundred years and the men wont count It amiss that a few Chinamen represent the last variation Col LIs cum outfit now on the road to China was formed for the purpose of lighting the French at a time late in the I eighteenth century when the United States came near having a row with their friends of the Revolutionary period Tho first real fighting that the organization saw however was with the tried soldiers of Britain in the battles of Niagara and Lundys Lane Then fot some years It fought various kinds of North American Indians leaving the Held against the savages lo ent < rron a campaign In Mexico After this there was more Indian fIghting to be followed by a brush with white railroad rioters and strikers then more Indian fighting and a hard baltlo wllh the Spanish at Santiago and then In order came a years campaign against the Filipinos and now the fhlnso p The first Coloncd of the famouo Ninth was Joslah Carvllle Hall an ailslocratlc old Marylander J twas the disappointment of Col loslahs ifo thai he couldnt lead his regiment into active service That honor first fell to Col Simon Learned of Mas sachusells who commanded the regiment regi-ment In the hot lighting with the Brlllsh troops around Niagara Falls In the course of time Col Learned was succeeded by Col Trueman B Ransom a fireealor and a gentle man by the Lord Harry as touching him went the paraphrase of a more celebrated description Col Ransom was killed while leading his men In that charge which for gallantry has but few peers the attacking and the storming of the citadel at rhapulle pee The Ninth lost many a gallant soul on that day mill as the result of Its fighting MaJGen Pillow after j ward of Confederate fame named sixteen officers and eleven cnllsled men for conspicuous bravery a list thai In length la without I parallel whore a single regiment and a single engagement engage-ment are concerned The old organ I ization sa j other severe fighting at San Antonio Cluirubusco and Mollno del iey After the capture of the City of Mexico there was but little rest for this batllelrled command It was morally jumped lo northern Cali fornia and to Oregon where It entered upon Indian campaigning of a Irvine kind Capt E B Robertson of the present Ninth i man try has written a record of the regiments doings Capt Robert son is too modest by half Some of time gallant deeds of the command are I barely mentioned In the year 1S5C a I small contingent of the regiment 150 men all told were sin rounded by 1000 Indians near Fort Walla Walla i The I soldiers fought all day Jung At night it was found that their ammunition I I barring three rounds PCI man waa exhausted The regular cut thph way through thf navagea and began a rc treat that Is one of the iosl famous in army history This litlle band with its slender supply of powter J and ball held off time surging savLgcs and re treated In peifect order a distance of I seventyfive miles In less than twenty j four hours and during tho retreat lost neither a man nor n horse In 1S58 the I outfit fought and subdued the Spokane Indians Eight years later It was I I pitted against the Indlnnn In Oregon and northern California At one time I a contingent was sent to Alaska and It was said of the regiment that between I I be-tween the years 1SGC and 1SCO It had garrisoned every post from SlUm I I Alaska to Mojave Arizona I I The Ninth fought undei Crook dur i Ing the Big Horn and Yellowstone CC pcdltlons It was In the hottest of the i fighting at Slim Buttes Tongue river antI the Rosebud Jn September of the I I year In which Custer met his fate the Ninth regiment was cut off for a longtime long-time from Us supply base and the l ofllccrs and men lived for weeks on mule meat with an occasional bit of horseflesh as a delicacy a a The regiment now going to China Is credited with having given the final r blow which broke the back of the Sioux uprising Silting Bull had barely put the while feather In his I hair before the fighting Ninth wan ordered to Chicago to help quell the riots of 1S77 They aided in restoring order in this city and performed guard I duty for some time being then ordered back to the Western prairies There was no rest for the indefatigable Ninth It had no sooner reached the buffalo country again than a part of It was ordered Into tlie saddle as I mounted infantry and sent in pursuit i of the CheyenncM who like a red whirlwind was raiding and devastating 1 i devastat-ing the country along the line of a warpath which led from the Indian Territory to the Red Cloud agency In Dakota It was in the heat of the summer and for thirtysix I consecutive hours the pursuing troopers were without with-out one drop of water The men at the very first symptom of suffering on the part of the horsc gave to the animals that which nature craved for themselves them-selves I Since that Cheyenne uprising the I Ninth has fought the Utes the Chey canes ohce more and finally the Apaches The command will meet no more savage foe In China than they fought years ago on the sunbaked Anlzona deserts Edward B Clark in Chicago TimesHerald |