They were followed up by a company of soldiers under the command of Major Thornburg, who followed the trail to Bronco Lake near Alliance : and the trail seeming to scatter there, the command left their wagons, camp equipage, etc., while they scouted the sand hills to the south, believing the Indians were hidden in some of the canyons. Upon their return to camp, they found the Indians had visited it. carried off what provisions they could, and burned the remainder, together with the wagons, tents, and the rest of the outfit. This band was under the leadership of Chief Little Hog. They were later captured and imprisoned in a stockade at Ft. Robinson, sixty miles to the northwest. The soldiers got tired of guarding them and one night left the gate to the stockade open and the Indians started to escape during the night, when the soldiers opened fire with their carbines and practically exterminated the entire band.

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

CIVIL WAR VETERANS

A roster of Civil War veterans officially prepared in the year 1891, showed the names of eighty-one men residing in the county, who wore the blue uniform of their country during the '60s. and now that a generation has passed this number has been lessened to barely a dozen survivors. The ranks have been reduced principally by death, there being fifty-two graves of Civil War soldiers in Greenwood cemetery at Alliance, and twenty-one at Hemingford. A few have moved to other states, and those still remaining in the county in 1921 are: