Excerpt from Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 36: October 1, 1901 In the spring of '1852 he took a small company east to Green River to protect the settlers from Indians and renegade white men. The following year he was elected captain of company A. Then followed his commission as major, colonel and major gen eral. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.