Report of Colonel Alvan C Gillem 1st Cavalry Modoc War 1873 to the Assit
Report of Colonel Alvan C Gillem 1st Cavalry Modoc War 1873 to the Assit
United States Army Dept of the Columbia
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) Captain Miller's command having in its advance inclined slightly to the south east, there was space- sufficient on his- left for G. Iptain Perry's dismounted cavalry, which moved forward in a most gallant manner, captured and held a po sition in the rocky edges of the Indian stronghold: the right join ing Captain Miller's Battalion r the left res-ting 01* the Lake, thus securing water for the entire line, and also a position for the Coe- horn mortars that had in the mean time arrived. Fire wa...s at once opened from them, and I believe with good effect ; after dark a shell was thrown into the Indian cliffs at intervals of fifteen minutes. The troops on the west side of the Lava Beds now held a line in the edge of the Indian stronghold from the Lake south. They had fought for every foot of ground gained, over the roughest field I ever have seen ; the chasms running in every direction ; the lava cutting like glass, and exposed at every step to the fire of the con cealed foe. The line was closed and the troops bivouacked on the ground they had so gallantly won ; their success had cost some brave men, the loss being three enlisted men killed, 1st Lieutenant Charles P.
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