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"Ontlmtw and renegades.'"
Taylor had been deliberating and plan
ning since leaving camp, and he had
firmly decided to osaiiBSinate Harkins,
It was a golder opportunity. The two
were alone, far from camp, and who was
to deny any story he might tell when he
returned without his pnrtner? With
Harkins ont of the way he was the sole
possessor of the golden secret,
Taylor's change of demeanor should
have put the Englishman on his guard,
but it had the opposite effect, 'i be warn,
ings nttered by Bess and Joe were for
gotten, and the man reproached himself
with the thought that he had unjustly
accused one who was that very moment
thirsting for his life.
Dinner being over, Taylor was ready
for action. His face was pule, his hands
f-p'yibled and he could x. l control his
olce as he said: . J
"You examine that ledi; cover yonder,
while I bear off here to the right a bit.
I won't go far." '
With an "all right" on his lips Harkins
suouiaered his rlilo and moved rorward
without a look behind him. Reaching
the ledge he leaned his gun against it
and began to investigate. Ho moved to
the left, und was at the corner of the
mass and on the edge of a gully or ravine
when he felt the ground giving way
under his feet. At the same instant ha
heard Taylor twice shouting "Indiansl"
and felt a hot flash across his shoulders.
He went down ten or twelve feet with a
mass of dirt and rock, but was not in
jured by the fall. Believing that they
had been discovered by Indians, he wisely
decided fj remain where he was at the
bottom of the ravine nntil something
further was heard from the savages.
Not a sound reached him from above.
He wa3 sure he had heard the report of
at least one rifle ns he was fulling,
and others might have followed it with
out his hearing them above tho noise of
his fall. Had the Indians killed Taylor
at the first fire? Would they make
search for him? If Taylor had escaped,
wouldn't he return after the coast was
clear? '
For a full hour Harkins lay quiet in
the ravino, half buried under the dirt.
As nothing to alarm him had occurred,
he determined to crawl out and make a
survey. It was only after he was clear
of the dirt that he discovered that he
cause he means to go back to camp and
claim that I was killed by Indians."
It was now midafternoon and Harkimj
was at least ten miles from the camp.
Having no skill as a woodsman, he had
trusted entirely to Taylor to observe
landmarks, and ho now doubted if he
even knew the general direction in
which the camp was situated. He cast
about for the highest point of ground,
and when he hud ascended it he discov
ered that he could see a portion of the
valley up which the train had como.
This gave him tho general direction and
he set off with feelings much relieved.
Taylor had no doubt started for camp
at once, and as he would have to ac
count for his appearing alone he wouH
tell a story which would bring grief and
distraction to at least one heart.
"Poor Bessiel What would she do?"
the father kept saying as he hurried
along, and tho thought of her wild grief
at learning of his death made him hurry
the faster.
He was compelled to bear to the left
to avoid obstructions, and when he had
covered half the distance he suddenly
found himself on the brink of a canyon.
It was a wild, gloomy chasm in the
hills, and so dark at the bottom that he
could make out nothing. He kicked
loose stone at his feet into the gulf, and
it went sheer down seventy-five feet be
fore it struck with a dull thud.
The lakes and rivers and mountains
and valleys are wonderful things in na
ture's handiwork, but the canyons are
more wonderful still. Think of the
mighty power required to split a great
mountain in twain for miles and miles,
beginning where it rises from the plain
and continuing back until the walls 01
the chasm are a thousand feet high!
Think of the mighty wrath let loose
upon the earth that day the sun hang
ing blood red in the murky heavens, the
awful roar of the hurricane sweepi.ig a
continent, the crash and explosion, the
trembling of a world!
And deep down in these awful rifts
there is ever darkness ever midnight.
The water drips and drips and drips
with sound so monotonous that a human
being would be driven insane in a day.
No serpents crawl there no living
thing can endure that grininess and sol
itude. Tho grizzly bear the king of
terrors shunned and dreaded by alt
and hating all, makes his lair in these
drifts, but goes back only to the edge of
the shadow cast by the sun. He fears
nothing living, but he fears that dark'
ness and silence.
Harkins followed down to the edge of
the canyon, and after half an hour's
walk he came to the, spot where it began,
and this permitted him to make a de
scent to the more 1-ivel ground. As he
stood for a moment looking up the rift
it seemed to him as if he had seen the
place before. This was, as he reflected,
impossible, but a sudden idea made him
almost gasp for breath
"I am about five miles to the right of
Custer's peak," he whispered to himself,
"and this must bo the canyon the old
hnnter told us of in his dying hour."
Had it been earlier in the day be
' ... . 1 1 1 ...
was bleeding from a flesh wound 111 the """" .".(,.
shoulder. The bullet had scarcely cut the least fear of Indians, but the raptdly
below the akin, and it was a hurt to be declining sun warned him that he must
laughed at, but it settled Harkins' j te on the move if he would reach the
doubt regarding the Indians. Both ; wagons .before dark. His way to the
men had been fired upon at the same south was almost blocked by a huge
time. He had been wounded and Toy- j mass of rock, and he was about to flank
lor had been killed. this when he heard the sound of human
But if this was the case, the man voices. Some one was speaking on the
needilv reasoned, why had not tho In- j other side of tho rock.
dians searched for bim? If alive they For a moment Harkins was filled with
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his anxiety. Ho had expected to behold.
Taylor's dead and mutilated corpse, but
nothing of the man living or dead met
his view.
Harkins kept his place of observation
for a quarter of an hour, and then bold
ly climbed out of the ravine to make an
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was his gun, which had been tucked
away under a cedar bush. He walked
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when he shouted his alarm, and thereon
the ground was a cartridge shell. It
Ten. r.vvf triar t1i nmn had fired from
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was aroused to know who was so near
him. Ho crept forward on hands and
knees, hearing the voices more distinctly
each moment, and at length he reuched
a spot from which he could see what
was going on on the south side of the
rock.
There was a camjifire burning very
low. and on either side of it sat a white
man two of the wickedest looking fel
lows he had ever put eyes on; on a heap
of brush near nt hand lay two more,
seemingly fut aisleep.
"Outlaws and renegades!" whispered
Harkins as he drew back a little.
So they were men more to le dreaded
than the dusky savages, because having
more reckless bravery and being en
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be no romance to follow, and of comae
was not ail veiled in olomls.
General Sweeny landed in New York
in the thirties, in a family of exiles from
the famine stricken island and after h
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diery. Sweeny enrolled himself in a
band known as the "Baxter Blues," anil
proved so good a soldier that at the be
ginning of the Mexican war be was elect
ed a lieutenant iu the tieoond Now Yolk
Volunteers. 1 bat regiment maicbtd ami
fought with Soott from Vera Cmc to tb
City of Mextoo, and Sweeny wub in ev
ery buttle op to Cheinbtisco. He war
wounded there in lie fieioe attack led
by Gineial (shields enainst the (lin k ol
Hanta Anna's arm while the regulars
stoimed the position in liont. H e Me
leans fought Shields with unnsitnl des
per at ion in order to save their main line
from a toe in the rear.
The New Yorkers made a brilliant
charge, lost heavily, and came out oover-
ed with glory. Swee n j'. right arm wbb
shattered above the elbow and was am
putated at the shoulder. On his arrival
in New York he was given a publio re-
eplion at the Castle Garden Theatre
then the arena for gieat oeremonies, and
was loaded wilh bonnis. Of Course the
hand buried at Cburnbucoo could no
longer stick type, and Unole Sam kindly
recognized the beio stuff j behind that
empty sleeve with a ccnjniiBion iu the
regular army.
There was work in those days for tlx
regulars in ranking the far.far vvebt hub
itable for the venturesome while man,
and Sweeney's ren'ment- the Seonnd fn
fautry was in the California gold fields'
almost as soon ns a pick was stuck in ihi
yellow earth of 1819 The regiment wa'
the Colorado a oouple of years and
built Fort Yumn as a stronghold ngainsi
lhe Coyote and Yuma Indians, who kept
he war palh constantly, oapluring unci
listressing the settlers, if they did noi
do worse. In Ihe summer of 1801 tin
Indians got between the for t and
military base at San Diego, and the gar'
risim was ont iff from supplies. The
uornmaiider saw i o way out but to fall
hack to S iu Diego, but didu't intend to
give up the fort to the redskins. Swee
ny was a lieutenant iu one of the com pa
uies, and with a detachment of ten men
was left to hold thu fort until the mnin
body aould march to San Diego and
bring back help and material.
The retreating garrison was followed
npby Indians, and rhorlly the oountry
between Yuma and Kan Diego was swarm
ing .with hostile, hweenys baud war
under siege from June 6 to December 6.
aud would have held mil nntil pioniisen
help oame or starvation or maBsaore over
took them but for the timely arrival of a
roroe or soldiers from a quarter unsus
pected by the besiegers. A government
exploring expedition under military ei
Ooit happened at the time to be nt work
on the Colorado river remote fiom the
scene of trouble, and on giving up their
sen! cine for the winter irtirid by the way
of Fort Yuma, 'lhe tX hirers were well
provided fur the march, aud the two par.
lies united made their way tothe military
posts in spite of the red skins.
The exploit put Sweeny's name a peg
hitiber at the war t flice, and iu 1KC1 lie
was captain of his company. In April he
was assigned to duly at the St. Louis
Arsenal under a ninji r of Southern pro
clivities. During the excilement follow
ing riumter Iheseoeilera of the state tried
to get possession of Ihe Arsenal aud the
immense quantities of aims aud ammu
nition stored there. The major resigned,
leaving Captain Sweeny in charge with
about forty soldiers, who were raw re
cruile, to hold out against thousands of
hostile cit zeus. Proposals baoked by
threats, were made to the gallant soldier,
and he finally told hi. persecutor i that
before he would yield the post he would
blow it all to atoms.
The seceders concluded to wait for a
more favorable turn, and meanwhile
Cspt. Nathaniel Lyon reached St. Louis
with reinforcements and Ihe arsenal was
saved. Sweeny wss second in command
to Lyon in the Camp Jackson affair and
afterwaid helped organize the three
mouth's volunteers and was appointed
brigadier geuer.tl iu the three mouths'
8-i von. Uis brigade fought at Wilson's
or-ek. and he Miooeeded L.iou in com.
tnand ou the field after that hero was
killed.
On the expiration of his term in the
militia Sweeny accepted the colonelcy ,
of the d2d Illinois regiment, and led it in
the Douelson oampaigu. At the battle
of Shilob he commanded a brigade in tba
division under Wallace, which went to
the relief of Sherman's ttonps on the first
day. At a oritioal time Sherman oalled
upon one of his colonels to take a regl.
mint to nn txposed position between the
fighting lines and bold it at all hazards.
in order to keep Ihe confederates from
seizing it The colonel hesitated BDd
pleaded ignorance of the defy required
until it seemed as though the opportuni
ty would be lost, when Sweeny, who was
standing by, sainted the gener 1 and ex- ,
claimed, "I understand perfectly what
jon watitj let me do it."
Certninly, Sweeuj ; go at onoel"said
Sherman, and he afterward declared that
the result was more important than any
of the hundred achievements alleged to
have "saved the day" at Shilou. Sher.
man didn't forget the deed either.
Alter the Shiloh aud Coiith cam
paigns, Sweeuy received a general's star
and was assigned to a division of guards
and garrisons along the railroads in
Western Tennessee and Northern Missis
sippi. The service was the most difficult
snd arduous that could fall to the lot of
a soldier. Tbe region was another Shen
andoah valley, peopled with zealons oon
federates and a favorite stamping ground
for the wild raiders led bv Forrest and
others. While incursions oonld not be
prevented in territory so vast and invit
ing, the roads were held and travel kept
open between the Union front and the
North, and between the separate oamps
and ,nany a desperate battle wag fought
to attain that end.
When the army started for Atlauta in
the spring of 1864 Sweeny's division
went to the ttout iu the 16ib Corps In
MoPbersou's Atmy of the Tennessee.
Dining tbe advance beyond Reaaca
Sweeny took the lead iu Mol'hei sou's
column and adroitly seized the crossing
of (the Oostenanla at Lay's Ferry iu the
presence of a powerful body of confeder
ates, and held it nntil bridges were pnt
lown and the nrmy safely across on tbe
flank of the retiealing euemy.
Iu two jeaiB of campaigning General
Swe.-uey had pioved that he was a capa
ble oommimder as well as a fighting hero.
But his chance to head a large body o"
men in a desperate baitle didu t come
mini the biuiiis locked homsat tbegates
if Atlauta, late iu July. For several
ilnvB the Sixteenth corps was iu reserve
and on the 21st marched to the extreme
Union left to exieud the line around the
ily. Sweeny's division spent tbe night
in bivouno 111 rear of the Seventeenth
ooips, and General MoPlietsou shared
the leut of the Iiisli hero. Plans were
laid for the morrow, aud ou the mortiing
of ihe 22d the division marched off to
ard the exireuie left to wheel into liue
beyond Ihe Seventeenth Corp., and halt
ed in open field on BaldMlIU to await
furl her orders.
Suddenly about noon General Sweeny
discovered troops of lhe enemy mnrohing
across tbe gr uind be had been diieoted
to occupy, and sent out akiimisbers to
engage them. The firing alaimed the
Union ohioftains, and McPbeistm rode
to the front, us did also the Oommander
of the Sixteenth Corps. Before new dis
positions oonld be made a confederate
corps, led by General Hardee, bnistfn m
the woods itito Ihe open field and dusbid
three or four hues deep upon the flank of
the Seventeenth Corps to roll up the liue.
An eye witness says I but Sweeny's divis
ion sprung to amis like magio, the bat
rerieB unlimbered on a kuoll where they
happened to be resting, and before tbe
bold assailants bad time to iccoter from
their eui prise at the presence of this un
linked for danger they were met at close
range by a stortn of bullets and canister
that sent them back to the cover of tbs
trees. Again and again they re-formed
aud charged. At the third repulse Gen-
Sweeny gathered up three tegimentsand
led them with fixed bayonets against the
broken confederate ranks.
After looking on at the repulse of the
enemy by Sweeny, General McPherson
rode out beycud the new left flank, to
find a brigade that be had hastily order
ed there iu support of Sweeny. He un
wittingly rode iuto the enemy's lines and
was shot down, a noble sacrifice for tbe
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