. Actes de vaillance : comment les héros de l'Amérique ont gagné la médaille d'honneur : souvenirs personnels et records d'officiers et d'hommes inscrits qui ont reçu la médaille d'honneur du Congrès pour les actes de bravoure les plus remarquables au combat : combiné à une histoire abrégée des guerres de notre pays . istance, trempez leurs campeurs dans le fleuve et puis retournez avec eux. Pendant qu'ils s'écrasant sur les espaces exposés, Geiger, voix, Mechling et Windolph ont gardé les fusils craquant pour contrôler le feu de l'enemys. Un groupe d'Indiens s'était caché dans quelques buissons, dont leurs fusils avaient le bon commandement de la Th

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. Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars . istance, dip their camp-kettles into the river and then return with them. While they were dashing over the exposed spaces, Geiger, Voit, Mechling and Windolph kept theirrifles cracking to check the enemys fire. A groupof Indians had concealed themselves in some bushes, from which their rifles had good command of theexposed stretches of the water carriers path, andthey would, undoubtedly, have killed some of thecarriers but for the vigilance and skill of the foursharpshooters. The result was that only one of thecarriers, Peter Thompson, was wounded. He wasshot through the head, but, notwithstanding, hemade two more successful trips for the water, eventhough his sergeant ordered him to go to the rear.Although the hostiles wounded only one man, therewere nevertheless many narrow escapes, for severalcamp-kettles were smashed by bullets. The courageous and self-sacrificing menwho had thus exposed themselves and risked their lives for their comrades were allawarded the Medal of Honor. 1 fkvi-. m i » HENRY W. B. MECHLING, I i Blaeksmith, Troop H.7th U. S. CavalryBorn at Mount Pleasant, Pa., October 14, 1851. m % 222 — About 2 p. M. of the 26th the fire of the Indian line began to slacken. Thefire against the water carriers, however, was kept up until 3 oclock. Shortly there-after the savages abandoned their position. They fired the grass, and under thescreen of the smoke the village was abandoned. The besieged troops could seethrough the smoke the whole cavalcade moving briskly away, in almost militaryorder, towards the Big Horn range. It was now near 7 oclock and sighs of relief went up from the exhaustedand sorely-tried white warriors on the bluff. There was not the slightest doubt in

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