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Bewildered Travellers Prowling Indians A Giant Crow Chief. A Bully Rebuked Indian Signals. Smoke on the Mountains. Mad River. An Alarm. An Indian Foray A Scamper. A Rude Indian joke. A Sharp-Shooter Balked of His Shot. ON the 1st of September, Mr. Stuart and his companions resumed their journey, bending their course eastward, along the course of Snake River. As they advanced the country opened.
On the basis of these numbers, we arrive at a grand total of 1,800,000 for all the army corps, divisions, sharp-shooter brigades, and cavalry divisions. To this must be added unattached troops and troops on frontier or garrison duty, so that the war strength of the standing army can be reckoned at some 2,000,000. This grand total is not all available in a European theatre of war.
He was, as might be expected from one of his race, always at the point of danger throughout the retirement, and as he crossed the open zone among the last, a sharp-shooter at close range, from behind a withered tree, fired the fatal shot. It was on this open ground that the extraordinary bravery of the enemy was most brilliantly shown.
Every tree and stump covered a sharp-shooter, ready to pick off any luckless marine who showed his head above-decks, and entirely preventing the working-parties from removing obstructions. This was speedily arranged, our skirmishers capturing three prisoners.
Every tree and stump covered a sharp-shooter, ready to pick off any luckless marine who showed his head above-decks, and entirely preventing the working-parties from removing obstructions. This was speedily arranged, our skirmishers capturing three prisoners.
A sharpshooter began to make a target of Weigle's gun, and "potted" a couple of men belonging to the cavalry near it. This made Weigle so mad that he turned the gun, for a moment, upon the tree in which the sharp-shooter was concealed. That sharpshooter never shot again. Finally, Weigle's gun got so hot, and he himself so cool, that he concluded the piece was too warm for further firing.
It is filled with the fatherless. She is very old, very highborn, and of irascible temper. All men call her Mother. The Colonel himself salutes her. Thus are all sorts mingled in this country of France." MOTHER. Ha! Well, at least that holy woman was well-born, but she is too free with her tongue. Go on! SON. He says: "Through my skill with my rifle, I have been made a sharp-shooter.
Captain Dimmick, now in command of the Ninth, was bringing it forward; Captain McBlain had a number of Rough Riders mixed in with his troop, and led them all together; Captain Taylor had been severely wounded. The long-legged men like Greenway, Goodrich, sharp-shooter Proffit, and others, outstripped the rest of us, as we had a considerable distance to go.
Suddenly a sharp noise broke on them: the rap of a rifle-shot against a tree-trunk a few yards ahead. "Ah, the sharp-shooter," said our guide. "No more talking, please he's over there, in a tree somewhere, and whenever he hears voices he fires. Some day we shall spot his tree." We went on in silence to a point where a few soldiers were sitting on a ledge of rock in a widening of the "bowel."
At that time, the Confederates had not learned to plant torpedoes in their rivers, to blow the enemy's vessels into fragments. There was no artillery stationed in that section to check their progress, and the only resistance found was an occasional rifle-shot from some concealed sharp-shooter in the bushes on the shore.
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