men what wretched shots some Indians could be. How could half the incidents be told when so little parade was made of them at the time? Who knew the night of the stampede on the Rosebud that Eaton was shot through the hand until he had spent an hour or more completing his duties, riding as though nothing had happened? Who knew, at the Rosebud battle, that Nickerson's exertions in the saddle had reopened the old Gettysburg wound and well-nigh finished him? We thought he looked white and wan when he rejoined us at Red Cloud, but never divined the cause. From first to last throughout that march of eight hundred miles, so varied in its scenes, but so utterly changeless in discomfort, there was a spirit of uncomplaining "take-it-as-a-matter-of-course" determination that amounted at times among the men to positive heroism. Individual pluck was thoroughly tested, and the instances of failure were few and far between. Despite the fact that our engagements were indecisive at the time (and Indian fights that fall short of annihilation on either side generally are), the campaign had its full result. Sitting Bull's thousands were scattered in confusion over the Northwest, he himself driven to a refuge "across the line," his subordinates broken up into dejected bands that, one after another, were beaten or starved into submission, and in the following year General Crook's broad department, the grand ranges of the Black Hills and Big Horn, the boundless prairies of Nebraska and Wyoming, were as clear of hostile warriors as, two years before, they were of settlers, and to-day the lovely valleys of the North, thanks to his efforts, and the ceaseless vigilance of Generals Terry and Miles in guarding the line, are the peaceful homes of hundreds of hardy pioneers. ROSTER OF OFFICERS SERVING WITH THE FIFTH CAVALRY IN THE BIG HORN AND YELLOWSTONE EXPEDITION OF 1876. _Colonel_ Wesley Merritt, Brevet Major-General. _Lieutenant-Colonel_ Eugene A. Carr, Brevet Major-General. _Major_ John J. Upham. _Major_ Julius W. Mason, Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel. _Captain_ Edward H. Leib, Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel. _Captain_ Samuel S. Sumner, Brevet Major. _Captain_ Emil Adam. _Captain_ Robert H. Montgomery. _Captain_ Sanford C. Kellogg, Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel. _Captain_ George F. Price. _Captain_ Edward M. Hayes. _Captain_ J. Scott Payne. _Captain_ Albert E. Woodson. _Captain_ Calbraith P. Rodgers. _First Lieutenant_ Bernard Reilly, Jr. _First Lieutenant_ Wm. C. Forbush, A.A.G. Cavalry Brigade. _First Lieutenant_ Charles King, Adjutant. _First Lieutenant_ William P. Hall, Quartermaster. _First Lieutenant_ Walter S. Schuyler, A.D.C. to General Crook. _Second Lieutenant_ Charles D. Parkhurst. _Second Lieutenant_ Charles H. Watts (until July, when disabled). _Second Lieutenant_ Edward W. Keyes.