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Show 50 INDIAN DEPEEDATIONS gether and a board fort put up around them a rather flimsy fort to stop bullets. We camped with them that night, during which one or two Indians were seen skulking around. Our boys shot at them, but I do not think they hit them ; it raised the alarm however, and every man wras at his post ready for a fight, but no Indians came. We advised the few settlers of Springtown to move down to Manti City, but they said they could take care of themselves. We had been ordered to make for the main army to report what we had discovered of the situation of affairs in that section of the country, therefore, the next morning we took up our line of march for Manti, where we arrived the same day in the after-noon, joined the main army consisting of about two hundred men under command of Colonel Markham and Conover. " We stopped at Manti seven or eight days, dur-ing which time companies were scouting the country in every direction in search of Indians. One of our companies ran across a camp of thirty or forty In-dians and had a brush with them. Some of the In-dians were killed ; the balance retreated. Another party of the Indians came down the canyon to the mill, a short distance above Manti, in the night. After this discovery was made, a strong guard was kept up in the mouth of the canyon. One night I had command of a company doing guard service and Captain Chidester had charge of another in the mill below us, where the road came down the canyon. It was a very steep place, and a thick under-growth of young pines grew close to the road. We concealed ourselves along the road in this under- |