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Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army ., Chapter XII (search)
ttention I transferred my headquarters from Leavenworth to Fort Hays, a military post near which the prosperous town of Hays City now stands. Fort Hays was just beyond the line of the most advanced settlements, and was then the terminus of the KI have said, the section of country to be operated in was comparatively unknown. In those days the railroad town of Hays City was filled with socalled Indian scouts, whose common boast was of having slain scores of red-skins, but the real scout hard to find anybody familiar with the country south of the Arkansas, where the campaign was to be made. Still, about Hays City and the various military posts there was some good material to select from, and we managed to employ several men, who, al couriers having been killed on it — it was impossible to get one of the various Petes, Jacks, or Jims hanging around Hays City to take my communication. Cody learning of the strait I was in, manfully came to the rescue, and proposed to make the