. The blue and the gray, or, The Civil War as seen by a boy : a story of patriotism and adventure in our war for the Union . INDIAN SCOUT. CHRISTOPHER CARSON. 35* After the defeat of the Indians at Wounded Knee Creek,they were ready to close the conflict and make the best termspossible with General Miles. On the 22d of January there wasa grand military review in honor of the victory over the redskins.Ten thousand Sioux had a good opportunity to see the strengthand discipline of the United States Army, the end of the ghost-dance rebellion being marked by a review of all the soldiers whohad take
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. The blue and the gray, or, The Civil War as seen by a boy : a story of patriotism and adventure in our war for the Union . INDIAN SCOUT. CHRISTOPHER CARSON. 35* After the defeat of the Indians at Wounded Knee Creek,they were ready to close the conflict and make the best termspossible with General Miles. On the 22d of January there wasa grand military review in honor of the victory over the redskins.Ten thousand Sioux had a good opportunity to see the strengthand discipline of the United States Army, the end of the ghost-dance rebellion being marked by a review of all the soldiers whohad taken part in crushing the Indians. Thus passed intohistory probably not only the most remarkable of our Indianwars, but the last one there will ever be.. BREVET BRIGADIER-GENERAL CHRISTOPHER CARSON CHRISTOPHER CARSON. The subjectof our sketchwas one of themost notedm ountaineers,trappers andhunters thatever lived. Hewas no less re-nowned as aguide and a sol-dier. He was anative of Madi-son County,Kentucky,where he wasborn December24,1809. Whenhe was a babehis father re-moved his fam-ily to HowardCounty, Mis-souri. Here he 352 THE WORLDS COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. spent many happy days in hunting wild game, and making him-self familiar with nature. The schoolroom had not very manycharms for him, and at fifteen he was apprenticed to a saddler,with whom he remained two years. But this employment wasirksome to him, and he soon freed himself, and we next hear ofhim as a trapper, which was more congenial to his taste, as he re-mained one for eight years. He next engaged as hunter toBents Fort, and eight more years glided by. Few men under-stood the nature of the Indians more thoroughly than did he.He dealt with them in a truthful, straightforward