| Show HAK NEYa RACE rob LIFIE ned huntine comrade of gen harne iche florida wai thal fol lowine ws a acting lieutenant on board the united states icho onci 0 jeffo on theli coast he was lieutenant colonel ot the second united states dragoons Dra dundei lionel TR aps it was tho only cn c n al n regiment in the and ilal earner chii ley MA ind belh 1 ulton the father of chandos aulton prominent now in houi city vere then in the I 1 could fill ow columns for weeks with incidents of in which hi old ad artillery and the gah ath and 8 h infantry were pi eminent lint to come back to harney he looked every inch a soldier ind lio stood 6 feet J inches in his boots he was not hand ome he was st ignart manly ever impetuous in word and action he aal twigs swore race twigs out first best general barnev retired is the oldest general in the arm I 1 could stirring incidents of his life bat will celoso with only one which tho general will ouch for as true in 1831 he had a post with two companies of the second on the nver about 10 or 15 miles above its mouth it enters the onla of mexico at canabel lland the men were mostly in tents there was K small stockade a sut lars store and ft temporary storehouse in the encampment in the middle of hot I 1 forret tho precise date or under Arpi aka the fish eater and billy surprised thal post colonel harne in heat and mosquito had taken bis blanket and left his quarters to sleep on a knoll on abo river bank where the cool breeze swept over the water this alone macd his life he was awakened in tho dead of night of indiana the firing of auns and the shrieks of bib diep men the houses and tents fired the soldiers were killed before they could offer resistance in short it ta a mas the sol hers not an indgin killed m the whole affair hamey ta bis shirt and drawert draw erx without weapon cumla onvy run for life capture would be death by the cruelest eru elest torture he ran down alio river through a dene swamp the indian yells filling the air and he believing bel ievins them cloe on his trill ator miles he kept on tho canty clothes ire wore torn all to on the branche bra nehe as he plunged through the brush and fast as be went he heard a crash behind him he was pursued at last breathless worn out so he could run no loeper he halted and turned I 1 give his own words to me cf what then occurred 1 I heard the red cues cloe on me 1 t was death but I 1 thought 1 d squared off clinched my and shouted coma on vou red delih din you come en howl ailts IK it you kernel cried one of nr own men the only man be ide m wt that escaped as be halted within CTT reach I 1 was that mad to be go scared by a white man anat I 1 knocked him down on the spot its a fact W hen I 1 felt ashamed of my act and I 1 picked him up aad told him I 1 was the two then crawled on through the ind pot down by to swimming iiron the narrow hannel to its sandy bore ahe nex lay we ran in here for water in the otsego and found harney and his man almost stark naked on the beach both hungry and but thankful for life and this is known in biondi aar hi doiy as he massacre on the caloo sa hatchie uhe reason of the surprise was that there was a temporary truce between th indians and whites ad fealin no danged the sentinels were few and barele ca rele after that har ney planned and carried out a raid in to everglades in which 27 ciuck indians were killed or captured and all of them huner as as soon a in our captured about 50 equals and children who were held as era until sent went I 1 was on the raid in it the late general ord was shot through the shoulder he was then a second lieutenant in the third artillery sherman now retired wis a first lieutenant in the regiment at the time pardon these old time am foil of then and they will come out when the A full chapoci would bo required to illustrate that rid on harveya Har neya part |
