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Northern Illinois University
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The Banner Weekly
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v. 10 no. 492
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The Banner Weekly, v. X, no. 492, April 16, 1892 (Issue) |
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Powell, George E., -1920
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April 16, 1892 |
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*After the battle of Wounded Knee, Where Custer's cavalry again met the very tribe that annihilated their leader and his command-which was half their regiment, at the historical Battle of the Rosebud upon the Little Big Horn fourteen years before, a warrior- one of Big Foot's band, mortally shot through the shoulder-crawled to the crest of a tall, chimney-like rock, and, form his lofty and impregnable perch, kept up so deadly a fire upon the unsheltered soldiery below that, after many costly efforts to dislodge him, Colonel Forsyth was compelled to give the unparalleled command that a regiment, "Custer's Immortal Seventh," should withdraw beyond the deadly and destructive fire-virtually relinquishing the field to a single foe.
Four days afterward a scout scaled the cliff, to find the stark and frozen form of a brave, who had exhausted the last cartridge in his belt, as the many empty shells around his lone retreat bore ample testimony, ere ending his suffering by plunging a scalping-knife through his heart!
In frozen ground at the foot of his fort, brawny, but gentle hands dug his grave; and there, to feel no more the touch of brown but loving lips-to hear no more the ringing war cry of his dauntless tribe;-there, where the wild winds of his native plain shall sing in endless requiem o'er the warrior's tomb, a tireless tribute to a fearless foe-there, where the wild flowers ceaseless bloom and die and the winter snows fall and melt away- there, there, alone, wrapped in the accouterments of savage warfare, with his faithful rifle by his side, sleeps the Uncapapa brave who held the battle-field against a thousand foes. |
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