THE CORPORALS ARE PROMOTED
XI. BOTH PONIES ARE STOLEN
XII. INDIANS ON THE WAR-PATH
XIII. THE BOY SERGEANTS DO GOOD SERVICE
XIV. ON THE DESERT WITHOUT WATER
XV. THE PONIES ARE FOUND
XVI. APACHES IN SKULL VALLEY
XVII. PURSUIT OF THE APACHES
XVIII. ON THE TRAIL OF THE APACHES
XIX. THE ATTACK ON THE APACHE CAMP
ILLUSTRATIONS
"EVERY ONE HELD HIS RIFLE IN READINESS TO
SHOOT THE ESCAPING APACHES" Frontispiece
"MOUNTED, THE BOYS PRESENTED A WARLIKE
APPEARANCE"
"CORPORAL HENRY ASKED CAPTAIN BAYARD TO
INQUIRE FOR MANUEL PEREA"
"'GOD HAS GIVEN ME AMONG MANY FRIENDS,
TWO THAT ARE SOMETHING MORE'"
CAPTURED BY THE NAVAJOS
I
INTRODUCES THE BOYS
It was late in the fall of the second year of the civil war that I
rejoined my company at Santa Fe, New Mexico, from detached service in
the Army of the Potomac. The boom of the sunrise gun awoke me on the
morning after my arrival, and I hastened to attend reveille roll-call.
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