History

 

Remarks on Return of Company F, Second Cavalry, Febuary, 1866. (Cont.)

 

On the fifteenth of February, 1866, a detachment under command of Major Samuel P. Smith, Second California Cavalry Volunteers, composed of thirty-two men of Company D, and nineteen men of Company F, same regiment and thirty citizens, fought Indians near Rock Canon - one hundred and fifteen Indians were killed and nineteen captured. Private Austin of Company D was killed. Major Smith, privates Resler, Grimshaw, Rhuman, and Belta of Company D, privates Mills and Smith of Company F, were wounded. Major Mellon, Captain Starr, and

 
 

Lieutenant Robinson, Second California Cavalry, accompanied Major Smith. Sixty horses, which had been stolen from the settlers, were recovered, and a large amount of Indian property was destroyed.

 

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