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Handy boxes of twelve tablets cost few cents: Druggists also sell bottles of 24 and 100. do It "Win a Record ....... ... . .... ., SCOTT WATSON LTHOUGU the year 1926 brings celebration the semicentennial of the Custer battle to concen trate public attention upon one regiment oft the United States army, the famous Seventn cavalry, old army men, who campaigned against the savages of the western plains and mountains hulf a century ago, will tell you that there is one regiment whose Indlan-flghtlcrec ord Is fully as brilliant as that of Custer's outfit and whose history from the beginning is one of the most interesting of any In Uncle Sam's service. That regiment is the Fifth cavalry and for one reason, if no other, this year is an apprpprlate time to recall some of Its honorable history. Whereas 1920 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Seventh's Waterloo the IJattle of the Little Big Horn It marks for The Fifth the same anniversary of one of the most remarkable cavalry marches and brilliant victories ever scored by Un'cle Sam's hard-ridinhorsemen over a savage toe. This was the Battle of War Bonnet creek in South Dakota, fought on July 17, 1870. Richly though it has been deserved, no formal history of the "Fighting Fifth" has ever been written. Its deeda have been partiully recorded In the charming writings of Oen. Charles King, who was once Its adjutant, notably in his "Campaigning With Crook," and further light . is thrown upon its long and honorable history In a book, "Buffalo Days," recently published by Bobbs-Merrll- l, and written by Col. Homer W. Wheeler, who became a second lieutenant of the Fifth in 1875 and served with it until he retired as a colonel In 1911. An examination of the matter-o- f fact official records of the War department Indicates the great variety of service of this regiment over a period of more than 70 years, but it is only in such books as "Campaigning With Crook" and "Buffalo Days" that life is breathed Into cold statistical data to vivify the real story of the "Fighting Fifth" and show its part in the winning of the West. It "was not always the Fifth cavalry. Organized by the act of March 3, 1835, as the Second Regiment of Cavalry, the designation was changed to the Fifth Regiment of Cavalry by the act . of August 3. 1801, so that in reality the Fifth cavalry under that name will celebrate Its nlxty-fiftbirthday this summer. Soon after its organization as the Second regiment, this organization was detailed to frontier service and during the five years preceding the opening of the Civil war the various troops of the Second were almost constantly in the field in Texas and what Is now Oklahoma. From February 22, 1850, to June 1, 1801, there Is the record of no less than 30 skirmishes, scouting expeditions and other forms of military activity to its credit. Although none of these engagements was of outstanding importance in our military history, the greatest Interest in the regiment lies in the personnel of its officers during this period. It Is doubtful If there came from any other regiment as many men who rose to prominence in both the Union and Confederate armies as did from the old Second cavalry which was so soon to become the Fifth. Among those who became lenders of the men In gray were Alhcrt Sidney Johnston, who was colonel of the Second from the date of Its organization to the outbreak of the Civil war; Robert B. Lee, who was its lieutenant-colone- l during that time; Earl Van Dorn, who had been a major In the regiment; XV. J. Hardee, Kirby Smith, John B. Hood and Lee, ail subalterns. Among Union generals were Ceorgo H. Thomas, W. H. Emory, George Stone-ruiJohn Sedgewlck,. A. J. Smith, and Eugene A. Carr. It was the Irony of fate that some of these men who had been brother officers in the old Second should be pitted against each other at one time or another during the four years of the conflict. The most notable example of this was In the case of Thomas and Hood. For It waa the r blows of the mnn who bad succeeded Albert Sidney Johnston as colonel of the " Second, George II. Thomas, the "Rock of which destroyed the army under his former subaltern, John B. Hood, now a general In the Confederate army in the fierce fighting around Nashville, Tenn., late in 1SG4, and won for ,hlRself and the Army of th Cumberland , ; 2 vwf n By ELMO g g h Fltz-Hug- h the-futur- n, eledge-liamme- Chick-amauga,- -- f - n . riiwrtv (Zest. CCsre'SJQh' It another way and to paraphrase Patrick Henry "the gentlemen of the Indian bureau may cry 'Peace ( Peace ! but there was no peace." During the 35 months that 'the Fifth was in Arizona, there were only seven different months during those four years of 1872 to 1876 that the Apaches weren't "out" and some detachment of the Fifth wasn't on their trail. Among the outstanding events in the Apache campaign was the crushing defeat given the savages in the Salt River canyon on December 28, 1872, by Major Brown of the Fifth, whose com- mand on that occasion consisted of Troops G, L and M of the Fifth, and a small body of Indian scouts and the brilliant little victory of a detachment of Troop K, commanded by Lieut. Charles King, near Diamond Butte on May 21, 1874. On this occasion King (now Gen. Charles King) with 14 men of Troop K surprised and attacked a banj of Tonto Apaches, greatly superior in numbers, routed them, killed 18 and destroyed all their supthe honor of a Joint resolution of thanks by plies and equipment. This was a band which congress. had repeatedly defied General Crook and had Reorganized as the Fifth Regiment of Cavalry on August 3, 1801, and participating in four continually stirred up trouble on the reservation. For his feat King was given the warmest minor engagements before receiving its baptism of fire at the Battle of Bull Run, this organizapraise by Crook, but It was not until 50 years later In 1024 that the War department gave tion soon Justified Its name of "the Fighting him the citation for gallantry in action which he Fifth." When the war ended it could have written on its banners the following names: York-tow- - so richly deserved. Kinney's Farm, Cold Harbor, Malvern nill. During the Sioux war of 1876 the Fifth won even greater laurels as a part of General Crook's Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, .Brandy Station, Mine Run, the Wilderness, Spottsylvanla, army In Wyoming. On July 1 its new colonel, Trevllian Station, Petersburg, Winchester, Cedar Gen. Wesley Merritt assumed command and GenCreek, Dinwiddle Court House, Five Forks and eral Carr was second In command as lieutenant colonel. Soon afterward the Fifth performed the Appomattox, not to mention nearly 200 other engagements during the four years of the war. brilliant feat previously mentioned In this article the march to head off a large band of Cheyenne But it was in the years following the Civil war that the Fifth won its greatest laurels and warriors, who had left the reservation to join the hostiles, and the fight at War Bonnet creek. that in the most thankless task in the world Merritt's problem was to march around three savage warfare. Ordered to the Kansas frontier sides of a square while the Indians were coverlate in 1808, the regiment under the command of MaJ. W. B. Royall arrived near Fort Hays ing the distance of the fourth, do It undiscovered soon after the celebrated battle of Beecher's and beat the enemy to the objective, the crossIsland between the company of scouts coming at War Bonnet creek. Suffice it to say that Merritt and the Fifth did manded by Gen. G. A. Forsyth and the Dog Soldier Cheyennes under Roman Nose. General Sherwhat they set out to do. They marched 83 miles in 81 hours, beat the Indians to the crossing and idan, who was then In the field, immediately ordered Major Royall to go in pursuit of these did it with every man and horse fresh and ready to fight. The next morning, July 17, the surprised Indians. Royall failed to find the hostilities, but a short time later under the command of MaJ. Cheyennes found a band of troopers Eugene A. Carr, seven troops of the Fifth fought barring their path to their friends In the field two-daa There was a sharp little fight, during which ocengagement with the Indians on Beaver curred the celebrated duel between Buffalo Bill and Prairie Dog creeks and drove them out of and Chief Yellow Hand, and the Indians fled the state. ll back to the reservation. This was the beginning of the Fifth's brilliant career In Indian fighting. Intimately associated During the remainder of the campaign the with It is the career of the man who became Fifth repeatedly distinguished Itself, at the Battle the regfment's favorite scout. William F. Cody of Slim Buttes where Chief American Horse was defeated and died, during the weary march of (Buffalo Bill) and that of the unique organization known as the Pawnee Scouts, commanded by Crook's command to the Black mils it Is of these events that General King writes so MaJ. Frank North and his brother, Capt Luther entertainingly II. North. The next year, 1809, saw the Fifth in his "Campaigning With Crook" at the disarmalmost constantly In the field and under the of the warriors of Chief Red Cloud and Chief ing command of General Carr (although he was only Red Leaf and at the bitter winter battle with a major In the Fifth, Carr had risen to the rank Dull Knife's Cheyennes when General Mackenzie of brevet major general of volunteers during the 6Cored such a decisive victory over these allies Civil war) It performed noteworthy service In of the Sioux on November 25, 1370. In Colonel Nebraska and Colorado where It Wheeler's book, "Buffalo Days" (he was then a Kansas, second lieutenant in Troop G of the Fifth) Is fought half a dozen engagements, culminating in the now famous battle at Summit Springs, Colo. given a stirring account of this light which brings Ilere Carr with seven troops of the Fifth, three a vivid realization of the many perils of Indian companies of Pawnee Scouts, and Buffalo Bill fighting. as chief guide, surprised the camp of Tall Bull, Following the close of the Sioux campaign the killed 52 Indians, among them Chief Tall Bull, next two years were times of comparative quiet who fell before the rifle of Frank North, capfor the Fifth, but In 1879 the regiment was tured 400 horses and mules, rescued a white womin the field and again General Merritt led it again on a an captive, and destroyed the camp. This battle brilliant march which stands not only on a par with its own remarkable feat preceding the War put an end to the activities of one of the worst Bonnet fight, but as one of the best Indian raiders f his time and helped bring peace examples of to a frontier country which had been harried by endurance riding In the whole history of the hostile Indians for more than five years. United States cavalry. This was the march f Merritt and four The next service of the Fifth was In the biastroops of the Fifth from Rawlins, Wyo., to the relief ing deserts and barren mountains of Arizona, of Captain Payne and five troops of the same ortrailing and fighting Apache Indians In the most ganization, besieged by the Utes on the Milk trying kind of warfare that the boldlery of a nation was ever called upon to endure. Here river in Colorado. On the morning of October Merritt set out and at dawn of October 5 with again a reference to the official records will show 170 miles of some of the most difficult the aptness of the term "Fighting Fifth." From mountain trails In America behind him, he rode Into Payne's April 25, 1872, to January 29, 1875, these records show a total of nearly 200 separate expeditions, camp with only three men dismounted on account scouts, skirmishes and engagements. Or to put ,v of 'exhausted horses.. .. . Afr. Yo risk no m.t.ur cutting, no . . from"w5 remlv, th or robbiDg of shoes. Th .2 - pressing thin, medicated, antiseptic, prolog.? healing. Got bo, ,oa.y gist s or shoe deler's-35- c. rfd). Zlno-p.d- . Sotl'mSampUwnuThtSchoilWt.Cai DrScholVs jLitiO'pads Pirt one on thzpain is gone SKIN BLEMISHES w pimples, His Status "Pa," began little Lester Livermore, who wished to know. "What is a Pharisee?" 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