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Show INDIAN DEPBEDATIONS 115 latest stage had possessed less of the elements of a massacre Colonel Conner and his command would have been more generally praised by the people ; but perhaps it would not then have proved a lesson so well to be remembered by the savages. As it was, it completely broke the power of the Indians there and conveyed to them a warning that it has never been necessary to repeat. In a letter to General Wright commanding the department of the Pacific, General in Chief Halleck wrote from Washington under the date of March 29th, highly praising the courage and discretion of the colonel and his brave Californians. And in a dispatch of the same date to Colonel Connor, he and his command were congratu-lated on their heroic and brilliant victory. And the commander was notified that he was that day ap-pointed a brigadier general. ATTACK ON A PLATOON OF SOLDIERS AT PLEASANT GROVE. April 12th. William H. Seegmiller of Rich-field, Sevier County, Utah, gives the following ac-count of a fight between a small party of soldiers from Camp Douglas and a band of Indians under chief Little Soldier at Pleasant Grove, Utah County. Eeturning from San Pedro ( Cal.) with Wood-mansee Bros. ' freight train, Sam Serine, captain, on the evening of April 12, 1863, we camped at Pleas-ant Grove, Utah County. We had been camped but a short time when a band of Indians, probably fifty, under the leadership of Little Soldier came to our camp and inquired if we were Americats. We aas-wered no, and he then asked if we knew where the |
