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THE RETURNFROM THE WARSRecord of Valor, Blazon ofGlorv and Sheen of ■The Call of Courage lo Carnage-Successful Storming of Works Held by ti, S. RegularsThe Sheridan and Buffalo militia companies have returned from partic-ipat km in Hie army exercises near Cheyenne.During the campaign Capt. Kirby, senior officer, led gallant Co. i) and two supplementary and supportingWyoming milit ia companies in a desperate and bloodless assault on scientifically constructed entrenchmentscrowned by heavy art Wen of t lie latestimproved models, lined from abattta toI ravelin with the latest and deadliest rapid tire guns and grimly garrisoned I by a vastly superior force of I tide Sam*8 elaborately disciplined and veteran regulars.Courage Calls to CarnageThere was no doubt, however, from the liisl forming up of the militia of the result. The fire of glorious battle flashed from each officer’s eye. anci desperate determination and reckless valor was stamped upon the visage of every private soldier. As the blaring andalmost bur sled bugles and badly beatendrums of the militia sounded the welcome call to the charge, the militia poured in an irregi stable wave upon the entrench uents. Such an onslaught con Id not be withstood and the veteran regular troops were almost instantaneously driven from their apparently impregnable entrenchments in disgrace and disorder, falling like autumn leaves as they tied before the deadly militia bullets, and only saving themselves from total annihilation by taking refuge in the dense jungles of sage brush and grease wood which form the chief feature of the t heyenne region, ..1. - .The victory was won, but at u fearful cost, for half way up the slope of tlie biggest and deadliest breastworkthe gal lan i (apt. Kirby hlmsidl Hippedand fell, covered w ith dust and glory. All of the big artillery and rapid lireguns, tugettier w ith multiplied munitions of war, in the captured uiit reitch* metj» were awarded lo the victorious militia by special order of Teddy lhn.se-\e!t Americas warrior president--and w ill form no inconsiderable addition to Wyoming s military militia ar-liaameitt.
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Sheridan Enterprise
Sheridan, Wyoming, US
Fri, Sep 21, 1906
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