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