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Scalped .I.S il-iiorV Tdrilli.. :y l>©r!rr -e. “I read in n Now .'1 pa Ibe o'hsr dnv ukß*;-- fi'Jj • t roil lU'onacn’i? ?■. , •' .. -■ m- Mice scalped 1 y : :j ■ te •ino: .vsident < u>. < • .iro, and i r< minded no tLat l jiayo net tive ? 1 - .?n in ray ime, L0..1 ui orl s 0 . . X ;ot *v *i. Tlu ‘'ory of n<? a z >l - r .:amcc! UelosU. Sanbei'son of ’1! ruroe cr.jmy, Mich., waslho firai •ioia-.i description, I believe, tliai any one has ever heard of how it foels i@ be scalped. While he was ;n the hospital af Laramie I herrd him tell the siory many time.?, and every time it made me oh udder, as it does slill whenever 1 think of it “Sanbertson belonged io the United States Infauhy, which was part of Gen, Caster’s command in his campaign against the Indians, in 1860. Ida participated in many o ' the engage-men is of that cam •feign, the most important of which Vi as the fight with Iho celebrated Black Kellie’s band on the Oua chita. It was iu this tight that San bensen was wounded and scalped ’■>y the Indians, and I remember that nearly all off ho old iron tiers* men said that he was the only per son they ever knew up io that time who had been thoroughly and un mistakably scalped, and lived lo tell it. "For some days bofore the meet. i;:g with Black Kettle, Custers scouts lia l been brine,.’ngin reports that, the wily chief was camped with a large following somewhere on ti;e Ouachita, and there he wrs sending oat predatory bands of his warriors to plunder settlers and im migrant hams. Custer decided to hunt him ap and punish him. The infantry was two miles in advance of ihe cavalry, when one day, just at dr ylight, it time in sight of the enemy’s camp. We were on a high- hill over looking the valley,’ Samberlson raid, in giving the account ot the affair, ; and the Indians were below. It was in the middle of winter and the snow was very deep. The In dian camp was in a rocky spot and as ike women and children were there, it, was evidently the head quarters of th j band. It was de mriniaed to surprise the village, aad a portion of our command was sent through. tin. woods to the right io got iu the rear of the camp, while : lie it .minder advanced qui thy and v> :i the mountain, from the tup n ’■•■•h.ich a good trail led to the radey luough toe thick woods. |'h:s muaeauvriag was so successful that be* ,-e our presence was dis covered by the Indians wo were wiiki . ar hundred yards of the cam], u." ~ie lot.. .out that was KHut, ,0 tire in .o rear had ar t. ved it! pyy.iion. V o knew by iho yell> o.' iac o.ns and the <’;rea't cutnui-.- .' u sov them that we were discovered, . . • we began the attack. Filing beewa on both sides of lhaia a once, a:id this caused what -A -i.c to be :: panic arnenj i. : c chat would tnaiio our * e(oty au r.sy one, l“.;i sfruden!/ •ia •*< of eiiorm-; as st<au( • ••-= fa.to streaked in cross bars vvi‘ ' b.;u . ; *:,!iow yu.l vo; loiih-Jii •'•ini, camo dujhing into the th- 'uipr'ciug and •>u! "1 i.;',. n ,-r.! inrn some moi g the rock 1 ding a • . .11 >. 'an: yell could ho heard - j .. cry thing else ;a he das .ed ■s> aftd'iio among his warrior-i/ m ! the effect of his presence immedi aieiy changed the whale situation, in less than two ruin tiles every In dian was in position behind seme rook 01 liee, and knew lliat the fight W uld boa desperate one. “‘We were in a secure position, bujt tho Indians were just a, secure as we were. The only way wo could hope lo defeat them was io ! charge upon their stronghold, dis lodge I.hern, and settle liie aTtar by a desperate hand to hand light. Wo were ordered lo charge down ihe hill 11 pci: the enemy, raid we rushed headlong right into the In (Ban camp, every man of us yell ing as hideously as tho red devils themselves. As soon as we had emerged from the woods we were met with rifle ball from every side and a good many poor fellows nev er reached the camp. The detach ment in the rear of ike camp came into the conflict from that side, and we forced fhe Indians out from hiding places to file open ground, and the battle waged right among their tsnts, Black Kettle seeuicd to be everywhere. Ills hid eous presence alone prolonged the fight. He held his warriors to their ground, and tho light became free and general. The Indian women, and even the children, look partiu it, and among fhe dead tint soon the snow squaws and pa pooses were mingled. In a low minifies fhe snow for rods around was dyed as red with the blood from the dead and wounded as tho paint on Black Kettle’s face. “‘ln a hand-10-hand fight like this, of course, it was every man for himself, and I soon found my self on one edge of the camp firing and bayonetting and clubbing my gun. just as the situation for fhe moment required. A messmate of mine, who was fighting by my side, was killed by an Indian who fired from behind a tent, and he fell, so I was obliged to step over him. As I did that a ball shattered my arm at tho elbow, and it fell helpless af my side. Immediately following ihat shot a big Indian, doubtless the one who had killed my messmate, sprang from behind the tent and rush ed at me with his tomahawk raised. My gnu was empty, and my left hand being useless I could not load. I would have run my bayonet through the advancing Indian, though, before he eould have nsed his tomahawk on me, but an Indian woman bad stolon up behind me, and she thiew one arm about my netk and jerked me back ward in the snow. “ ‘None of onr men were near me, as the tbiekest of the fight was in an other part of the camp. The big In* dian wh bad some at me with his tomahawk seemed to be aTo the only wairior of this btia-i who was not only ia the gone**; engagtment. T he squaw who had jerked toe down in the snow b, i. m© there bv the h-Jr, and a Jot of cfi-eiqua we ar- and eh’ .dreu came swtrna iav fi -m teats V. dbecncns t' tho spot. They ennoanded ms, spit in .0v idee jumped c-n my body, kicked rue, pitched me, thrust the points of knife blades in toy Hush, and tortured me in every wey they could 11 ink of Besides, my ami was paining y;e tre mendously and dyeing the snow all eronad in* with the blood that flowed fro at Big wound. The big Indian stood 0 bv with his totmhawk in his hand, and, Ibrtnnatelv lor me, he gave the women and their voting devils too much time to have their spotf with me, for suddenly there came the sound oi a gnu nearby, and t.woof thesquawa fe 11 dead io She snow by my side. One of our hoys 4-ad discovered my eitna tion. The other squaws and tbeir young ouca scampered away, but the big Indian determined to ran tke risk of getting my ecalp anyway, and he pounced down on 21a with his knees on my ehost, drew his knife, and the next second, although it seemed hours to me, the top of tay head was ia his hand, and he was gone. 44 ‘Imagine someone who hates you with the ntmost intensity,’ Sanbert eon said, in describing the sensation cf the tealping, ‘and he suddenly grab bing a handfal ofyonr hair, while yon are lyiaS prostrate and helpless, and giving it a quick, upward jerk with force enough almost to loosen the scalp; then, while this painful tension is not relaxed, imagine the not partia nlarly*sharp blade of a knife being run qaiekly ia a circle arourd your scalp with a sawing like motion. Then let your imagination grasp, if it can, the effect that a stroDg, quick jerk on the tnit of hair to release the scalp from any clinging partioles of flesh that may still hold it in place, would have on your nerves and pysieal sys tem, and you will have an inkling of how it foels to be scalped. When that Indian sawed his knife around the top of my head, first a sense of cold numb ness pervaded my whole body. This was .quickly followed by a flash of pain that started at my feet and ran like au electric shock to my brain. That sensation Was but mo mentary, but it was terrible. When the Indian tore my scalp from my head it seemed as if it must have been oonuected with cords to every part of my body. Tho paiu that followed the cutting around the scalp bad bora frightful, but it was eestasy compared to tho tortnro that followed the tear ißg of it from my head. Flashes of pain shot to every nerve. My knees were almost to my chin, and the fing ers of my one baud closed convulsive ly in the snow, those of my left hand being pjwerless, owing to the shatter ed arm. That was all I remembered. When I came to I was in a ten*. The cavalry had come up in the meantime, ami the Indians were rooted. Only a few escaped, bat Black Kettle was among the few.’ Saabertson lay for weeks in the eminent hospital at Fort Laramarie perteetly helpless and Buffering untold agony. He finally reaereiei, and in the meantime his term of enlistment expired He had bo desire to re enter the servioc, and Gen. Custer jocularly remarked to him that he made a mis take in quitting the’ service, ‘For think, 1 said the General, ‘howsnrpris >d and disgusted some Indian might be, if you should stay with ns and happen to fall in his bands when le went to raise yonr hair to find that s me one had been them fcefoie him.| I saw tSanbertson several years after ward, ana the pa’end, flrt.rouid, s>ai spot was on top of his head, show ing where his scalp had been torn a; way, r>B I had seen it when he left the hospital. He said that it was extreru • iy leader, and in damp or < old weath- \ ei was yery painiul.—[N, Y. Time*. | at 173 sf. y* m si vz si; s A t *<vrjw*tss h/j and i \ • -•-. et ; ?-•- IVI ( 4 .jyi ft | , . > v ■-! i> v *ta AW VV Sial && ~ 5 -.1 '%> & 1 '■* James T. Comer, maysville, GEOrGIA lias Employed A P’irst Claf? wVvWiAj * Os VWW’VV With a N*'w btock of Hats from New York aa i Brl:imors of the latent tyiea, *rotn the finest 10 tho cheapest. 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