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76The Night Desk- Q- Is it true that Buffalo Bill came to Memphis as a Yankee soldier? A- The current issue of Saga has an account of Buffalo Bill in which he enlisted in 1864, in the Seventh Kansas Volunteers, which was assigned to the command of Gen. A. J. Smith in Memphis. It is asserted that Buffalo Bill solved the Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest problem for the Yankees by disguising himself as a farm boy, locating Forrest, and making it possible for Smith to attack at Tupelo, Miss. Buffalo Bill was 18 in 1864. His mother had recently died and his father had been dead seven years. He had some experience with wagon trains, pony express riding, gold mining and Army scouting against the Indians but fame was years ahead. At that time he had neither killed the buffaloes that made his name, nor become the hero of Ned Buntline's fiction. He did scout for General Smith in Tennessee. We know of nothing to contradict the story of young William Cody finding Forest for Smith. Neither do we know of any reason to take it at face value. Buntline, whose real name was Edward Zane Carroll Judson, had a most enthusiastic imagination. Of what Buffalo Bill said about himself one of his biographers wrote, "Most of his statements are inaccurate; many are preposterous, and he sanctioned on the part of his publicity agents a gross indulgence in fiction." | 76The Night Desk- Q- Is it true that Buffalo Bill came to Memphis as a Yankee soldier? A- The current issue of Saga has an account of Buffalo Bill in which he enlisted in 1864, in the Seventh Kansas Volunteers, which was assigned to the command of Gen. A. J. Smith in Memphis. It is asserted that Buffalo Bill solved the Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest problem for the Yankees by disguising himself as a farm boy, locating Forrest, and making it possible for Smith to attack at Tupelo, Miss. Buffalo Bill was 18 in 1864. His mother had recently died and his father had been dead seven years. He had some experience with wagon trains, pony express riding, gold mining and Army scouting against the Indians but fame was years ahead. At that time he had neither killed the buffaloes that made his name, nor become the hero of Ned Buntline's fiction. He did scout for General Smith in Tennessee. We know of nothing to contradict the story of young William Cody finding Forest for Smith. Neither do we know of any reason to take it at face value. Buntline, whose real name was Edward Zane Carroll Judson, had a most enthusiastic imagination. Of what Buffalo Bill said about himself one of his biographers wrote, "Most of his statements are inaccurate; many are preposterous, and he sanctioned on the part of his publicity agents a gross indulgence in fiction." |