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Louis mounted volunteers were stationed in front, Major Clark with the battalion of volunteer light artillery in the centre, and Colonel Doniphan's regiment in the rear. The companies of volunteer infantry were deployed on each side of the line of march as flankers. The supply trains were next in order, with Captain Walton's mounted company as rear guard. There was also a strong advance guard.
"Why, yes." "So do I," said Banion simply. "He was in our regiment captain and adjutant, paymaster and quartermaster-chief, too, sometimes. The Army Regulations never meant much with Doniphan's column. We did as we liked and did the best we could, even with paymasters and quartermasters!"
Doniphan's volunteers, who gained this victory, passed up with the main army; but Price's soldiers, whom we now met, were men from the same neighborhood, precisely similar in character, manner, and appearance. One forenoon, as we were descending upon a very wide meadow, where we meant to rest for an hour or two, we saw a dark body of horsemen approaching at a distance.
The author of Doniphan's Expedition says: In approaching the Arkansas, a landscape of the most imposing and picturesque nature makes its appearance.
When the tall General Doniphan, of Missouri, was introduced, Mr. Lincoln had to look up to catch Doniphan's eye. He immediately inquired: "Is this Doniphan, who made that splendid march across the plains and swept the swift Comanches before him?" "I commanded the expedition across the plains," modestly replied the General. "Then you have come up to the standard of my expectation," rejoined Mr.
There's only one thing you understand. That's fear. Yet I've seen you on a firing line, and you started with Doniphan's men. We didn't know we had a coward with us. But you are a coward. "Now I leave you to your fear! You know what I want more than life it is to me; but your life is all I have to offer for it. I'm going to wait till then. "Come on, now! You'll have to walk.
In writing of this expedition, so far as its march relates to the Old Santa Fe Trail, I shall quote freely from Emory's report and Doniphan's historian. The practicability of marching a large army over the waste, uncultivated, uninhabited prairie regions of the West was universally regarded as problematical, but the expedition proved completely successful.
Doniphan's regiment marched through New Mexico more like a band of free companions than like the paid soldiers of a modern government. When General Taylor complimented Doniphan on his success at Sacramento and elsewhere, the colonel's reply very well illustrates the relations which subsisted between the officers and men of his command: "I don't know anything of the maneuvers.
Quickly the animals were outspanned, the picket ropes put down and the loose horses driven off to feed while the cattle were close herded. He nodded his approval. "Who's yer train boss, Bill?" he demanded. "That's good work." "Major Banion, of Doniphan's column in the war." "Will he fight?" "Try him!" News travels fast along a wagon train.
While resting there, a courier came from the commands of General Kearney and Colonel Doniphan, stating that their men were in a starving condition, and asking for such provisions as could be spared. Lieutenant-Colonel Ruff of Doniphan's regiment, in command of the troops now camped on the Little Arkansas, was almost destitute himself.
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