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It was not an uncohtest chronicle of

it survive, it otten

records of the Eighteenth Regiment of Infantry, yet it is extremely

probable that even there the details were never written down

Sufficient if, following certain naimental roll,

there should be duly entered those cabalistic sy to the

initiated, "Killed in action" After all, that tells the story In

those old-time Indian days of continuous foray and skirmish such brief

returns, concise and unheroic, were co nohen such days are past and gone

There were sixteen of them when, like sothe frowning rocks, and forced

relentlessly backward from off the narrow trail until the precipitous

canyon walls finally halted their disorganized flight, and from sheer

necessity compelled a rally in hopeless battle Sixteen,--ten

infantryray-headed sergeant of thirty years' continuous service in the

regulars, t-punchers froer who had

joined theether with

old Gillis the post-trader, and his silent chit of a girl

Sixteen--but that was three days before, and in theSioux bullets had found softer billet than the

limestone rocks Six of the soldiers, four already dead, two dying,