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Show FROM FORT HALLECK, & c. 37 We passed several additional graves of soldiers and citizens murdered by the Indians the year before, and on the head- board of one I read, u Burned by the Indians" etc. Subsequently I learned the particulars of the death of the unfortunate man buried there. He was one of a small party of soldiers guarding a train which was attacked by the savages, and all his companions escaped, but he was captured. . The inhuman wretches then tied him to the wheel of. a wagon, loaded with combustible material, and set fire to it, burning the unfortunate soldier to a crisp. Horrible ! but literally true ! Winding around the base of the mountain, in a westerly direction, in two or three days we reached the next military post Fort Ha Heck. CHAPTER VI. FROM FORT HALLECK. TO THE NORTH PLATTE. FORT HALLECK, another of the frontier posts established since the late war began, was a rudely built and unattractive station, situated at the base of the western part of the Medicine Bow range of mountains, or what is more com monly called the Elk Mountain. In this locality the most violent winter winds prevail, rendering it exceed ingly bleak and uncomfortable for many months in the year. Fort Halleck has an elevation of nearly 8,000 feet above the sea, and on the 4th of July of last year was visited by a severe snow- storm. Since we passed there in the middle of June, the post has been discontinued, and the garrison removed 60 miles east, to a point in Laramie Plains, near where we crossed the Big Laramie River, to which I referred in my last. Soon after our arrival there, the work of demolishing the |