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Show S » S COLORADO MAGAZINE >.- en his first active military service during the Civil " War as ,-; SeiL'.- ant in the 17th Pennsylvania - Volunteers and later as a Cap-tain in tA' 1' Mth Infantry. The War's end found him with tl,. r.- i'nl- of lircvcl Major, as an Aide d( Camp to Major Oetiel-.-.' ( Jeorge. II, Thomas, Department of the Cumberland lie parti,-, paled in campaigns against the Sioux in 1670 and 1* 77. DurA. tln « summer of IsA!) he was in command at Fori ( iibson. ludis. Territory, and was ordered from there to Colorado on Oct,;!.- • lib. His command travelled by rail to Alamosa. Colorado, wis' • was as far west as the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad had the been built.' From there his men marched through the inountai.' • t « , Animas C i t y , where they encamped until - January Of ] » n Several months after completing bis assignment. [ Major Houni. wrote yn account of his march, using the letters lie had writ;. t<> his wife as reference material, and although be could writ.- <•:' no fighting with the Southern I'tes, he has left an interesting description of a rapidly developing part of Colorado. The fohW-ing a.- count is taken from the manuscript copy of Major Hough** autobiography, and from letters written by him during the auimn- i of AAA both of which are now in the possession of his gram! son, . John N\ Hough. Professor of Classics in the l.' niversity .,:' Colorado.- The . summer jl.^ i- j was exceedingly hot. and besides ne<-<"> vary movements in my investigations 1 remained quietly at For* Cibson until October. On the first day of October I was at Mu> k'ogce at the International Fair of the Five Nations, at which t!. Hon. Carl Sehurz. Sect, of the Interior, was present. The day before he had received a telegram informing him of an even" which had shocked t. he whole nation, the killing of Maj. Thorn-burgh and pari of bis command while marching to the \\ hit- I. iver Agency in Colorado for tin- protection of the Ageiil an-the supposed n. assaeie of the Agent Mr. Meeker and his attach.* <> n the next day I received a telegram from Dept. Headquarters directing me to hold myself and command in readiness to." temporary* - fiebl service in Colorado. T of course- knew the cause !',. i- it and was M> OII ready., ' > n the morning o\' the 4th I re- eivci .. rders to march am! in four hours my command of four eompari:'"- of our Regt." were on the ears at < iibson Station. I left one <> i ti- ,- er and t<"! i hi'- n to lake .- are of the Post, and my family with oil:- • On- eh.- ii a, lerisl .' « • of Major I lough's writing was Lis habit lA nA liilU si'ii!. i.- <- s' Xn- 4<.: Iter, Separated only by i- oliunas. The editor IjaS » ^ ..- lied siil'i'ii i" iii conventional iuinet. ual. ion to facilitate the ivatlins ''• iiis mi rn. I iv.-. I !:•• J:' I:- I Inumry. |