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SERGEANT NOONAN EXPLAINS
JAMES Noonan, private, 'B' Troop, made sergeant on the field
For leading charge on hostiles, compelling them to yield."
That's the way the record reads, but, sure, it isn't so;
Ye mind, I'm Sergeant Noonan and I guess I ought to know!
I'll tell ye how it happened, dead straight, without no frills.
We'd tracked a Cheyenne war-band clean through the Blacksnake Hills,