CONTENTS
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[CHAPTER I.] Ancestry—Birth—Early Education—A Clerk in a Grocery Store—Appointment—Monroe Shoes—Journey to West Point—Hazing—A Fisticuff Battle Suspended —Returns to Clerkship—Graduation [CHAPTER II.] Ordered to Fort Duncan, Texas—"Northers"—Scouting Duty—Hunting—Nearly Caught by the Indians— A Primitive Habitation—A Brave Drummer Boy's Death —A Mexican Ball [CHAPTER III.] Ordered to Fort Reading, Cal.—A Dangerous Undertaking —A Rescued Soldier—Discovering Indians —Primitive Fishing—A Deserted Village —Camping Opposite Fort Vancouver [CHAPTER IV.] "Old Red"—Skillful Shooting—The Yalima War —A Ludicrous Mistake—Cut-mouth John's Encounter —Father Pandoza's Mission—A Snow-Storm —Failure of the Expedition [CHAPTER V.] An Indian Confederation—Massacre at the Cascades of the Columbia—Plan to Relieve the Block-House —A Hazardous Movement— A New Method of Establishing Guilt—Execution of the Indian Murderers [CHAPTER VI.] Misdirected Vengeance — Honorable Mention —A Change of Command—Educated Oxen—Feeding the Indians—Purchasing a Burying-Ground —Knowing Rats [CHAPTER VII.] Learning the Chinook Language—Strange Indian Customs —Their Doctors—Sam Patch—The Murder of a Woman —In a Tight Place—Surprising the Indians —Conflicting Reports of the Battle of Bull Run —Secession Question in California—Appointed a Captain—Transferred to the East [CHAPTER VIII.] Auditing Accounts—Chief Quartermaster and Commissary of the Army of Southwest Missouri—Preparing for the Pea Ridge Campaign—A Difference with General Curtis—Ordered to the Front—Appointed a Colonel |