Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian, And Civil Wars;
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I tried to close, and get a run- ning shot, but he outran my slow troop horse and went away with great leaps till he reached the chaparral. Had my rifle been a Winchester, or had I been upon my own horse, I would have dismounted and taken a sure shot, but on a previous day this brute had run off from me when I dismounted to shoot, and I did not feel jus- tified in being left alone to encounter that great beast with a Mississippi rifle. I was greatly provoked with the guide, but he had run up to... help me, was a very daring fellow, and very fond of me. Soon after this, the grass near Fort Mcintosh being used up, it was necessary to send our horses down the river for fresh pasturage, so that they might be in con- dition for the summer scouting. Tom Claiborn was captain of B Company, and Llewellyn Jones, captain of F Company. Claiborn's wife and children were domi- ciled in the garrison, and Jones' health was infirm, so I took the squadron two days' march down the Rio Grande, where we made a comfortable camp, and grazed our horses and hunted for more than a month.
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