After a sergeant major and other sergeants numbering up to the eighth, with a corresponding number of corporals, musicians, saddlers, and farriers were appointed, there were just two left as privates. These were James H. Danskin and Ira E. Tash, who, because they could not have any office, refused to be sworn into service. This broke up the company, as the officers did not have anyone to command, but all of the members retained their sabers and several of them still have them as souvenirs of their first experience as warriors.

The Spanish-American war of 1898-99 did not effect the county as there was no company formed and no one from the county enlisted for service in that conflict. Since then a number of those who participated in that war have become residents of the county and maintain a Spanish-American war veterans organization or camp in Alliance.

Indian Scare

The nearest Box Butte county ever came to war was in the winter of 1890-91, when the Sioux Indians on the Pine Ridge Reservation, seve,nty-five miles north became crazed over what the) believed to be the coming of a Messiah, whom they thought would, with their help, drive all the white settlers from the western county, bring back the buffalo and the game, .mil organized for a general massacre of the white settlers in the surrounding country. Fortunately there was a deep snow at this time win.]] delayed their movements until the United States Army, commanded by General Nelson A. Miles, could throw a cordon of