elm coppice could do its ghastly work and leave no clue,

daylight we advanced against them, two or three companies of infantry

moving forward to drive them from the summit, while our main column

passed through the canon into the upper Yakima Valley led by my

dragoons, who were not allowed to charge into the gorge, as the

celerity of such a movement might cause the tactical combination to

As we passed slowly and cautiously through the canon the Indians ran

rapidly away, and when we reached the farther end they had entirely

disappeared from our front, except one old fellow, whose lame horse