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The buckskin-shirted warriors leaped the rocky barriers, swinging their tomahawks and long knives. Again the white handkerchiefs fluttered. Ferguson saw that the morale of his troops was shattered. "Surrender," De Peyster, his second in command, begged of him. "Surrender to those damned banditti? Never!"
To the shouts of their women, as bugles on the wind of dawn, the buckskin-shirted army dashed out upon the mountain trail. The warriors' equipment included rifles and ammunition, tomahawks, knives, shot pouches, a knapsack, and a blanket for each man. Their uniforms were leggings, breeches, and long loose shirts of gayly fringed deerskin, or of the linsey-woolsey spun by their women.
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