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Updated: June 24, 2025
Then they hurried to the sutler's house, where they found several men at dinner; they surrounded the house and shot and scalped its inmates. When this was done they set fire to the house and took their leave with an exultant war whoop.
Next morning General Duncan sent me word by his orderly that I was to bring up my gun and shoot at a mark with him; but I can assure the reader that I did not feel much like shooting anything except myself, for on the night before, I had returned to Fort McPherson and spent several hours in interviewing the sutler's store, in Company with Major Brown.
Being selected to deliver the mail, I rode out to the fort, which was made up of a parade-ground protected by earth-works, with the usual stores, quarters, barracks, etc., the sutler and post-office being combined. On entering the sutler's, about the first person I saw was the young leader of the Indians, who had lunched at our camp the afternoon before.
Hear me, Mushymush; the United States mails no longer bring me my 'Young America, or my 'Boys' and Girls' Weekly. I find it impossible, even with my fastest scouts, to keep up with the rear of General Howard, and replenish my literature from the sutler's wagon. Without a dime novel or a 'Young America, how am I to keep up this Injin business?" Mushymush remained in meditation a single moment.
He's in a hurry to get back and pay his sutler's bill." The teamster gasped out: "You'd better all git out o' here as fast as the Lord'll let you. Johnson's Division's cut all to pieces and runnin'. There'll be a million rebels on top o' you in another minnit." "Capt.
Preparatory to this event, the great chief of the nation, Four-Legs, whose village we had passed at the entrance to Winnebago Lake, had thought proper to take a little carouse, as is too apt to be the custom when the savages come into the neighborhood of a sutler's establishment.
"We must have the physicians from Pontarlier," observed the Commandant, aloud, "to examine the deceased, and declare what he died of. The old man has not been well for some time past. I have no doubt the physicians will find that he died of apoplexy, or something of the kind." "No wonder, poor soul!" said a sutler's wife to another woman. "No wonder, indeed," replied the other.
"The rest was not very dangerous, unless the alarm were given. They might miss the locked-up officer he might have been seen to go into the sutler's shop and I admonished Colonel Mohun, in a low tone, to proceed as rapidly as possible in a direction which I pointed out.
The interview finally terminated, and Satanta angrily left the officers presence. Going over to the sutler's store he sold his ambulance to Mr. Tappan the past trader, and with a portion of the proceeds he secretly managed to secure some whisky from some bad men around the fort.
He told me that if the Indians had not been trespassed upon, that the great Indian wars would not have become a thing of history. The enormous trade at the "sutler's store" kept us four counter jumpers continually on the jump for a year.
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