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50Dodge's extract on page 10. This privileged position, and the nature of its services in the past, may be more fully appreciated when it is understood that it commanded, besides horses, subsistence and quarters, $10 per day ($3,650 per year), all expenses, and for special service, or "life and death" volunteer missions, special rewards of from $100 to $500 for carrying a single dispatch, and brought its holder the confidence of Commanding Generals, the fraternal friendship of the Commissioned Officers, the idolization of the ranks, and the universal respect and consideration of the hardy pioneers and settlers of the West. "Bill" Cody's children can point with pride to recorded services under the following officers of world-wide and national fame: General Sherman General Smith General Royall The extracts on the following pages speak for themselves, and will form interesting reading as authenticated references. FROM GEN. "PHIL" SHERIDAN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. GENERAL SHERIDAN refers to his meeting "Buffalo Bill." "He undertakes a dangerous task," chapter xii, pp. 281-289, in his autobiogrophy, published in 1888. The world renowned cavalry commander maintained continuous friendly relations with his old scout, even to social correspondence, friendly assistance, and recognition in his present enterprise up to the year of his death. After relating his conception of the first winter campaign against Indians on the then uninhabitated and bleak plains, in the winter of 1868, he says, "The difficulties and hardships to be encountered had led several experienced officers of the army and some frontiersmen like old Jim Bridger, the famous scout and guide of earlier days, to discourage the project. Bridger even went so far as to come out from St. Louis to discourage the attempt. I decided to go in person, bent on showing the Indians that htey were not secure from punishment because of inclement weather - an ally on which they had hitherto relied with much assurance. We started, and the very firstnight a blizzard | 50Dodge's extract on page 10. This privileged position, and the nature of its services in the past, may be more fully appreciated when it is understood that it commanded, besides horses, subsistence and quarters, $10 per day ($3,650 per year), all expenses, and for special service, or "life and death" volunteer missions, special rewards of from $100 to $500 for carrying a single dispatch, and brought its holder the confidence of Commanding Generals, the fraternal friendship of the Commissioned Officers, the idolization of the ranks, and the universal respect and consideration of the hardy pioneers and settlers of the West. "Bill" Cody's children can point with pride to recorded services under the following officers of world-wide and national fame: General Sherman General Smith General Royall The extracts on the following pages speak for themselves, and will form interesting reading as authenticated references. FROM GEN. "PHIL" SHERIDAN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. GENERAL SHERIDAN refers to his meeting "Buffalo Bill." "He undertakes a dangerous task," chapter xii, pp. 281-289, in his autobiogrophy, published in 1888. The world renowned cavalry commander maintained continuous friendly relations with his old scout, even to social correspondence, friendly assistance, and recognition in his present enterprise up to the year of his death. After relating his conception of the first winter campaign against Indians on the then uninhabitated and bleak plains, in the winter of 1868, he says, "The difficulties and hardships to be encountered had led several experienced officers of the army and some frontiersmen like old Jim Bridger, the famous scout and guide of earlier days, to discourage the project. Bridger even went so far as to come out from St. Louis to discourage the attempt. I decided to go in person, bent on showing the Indians that htey were not secure from punishment because of inclement weather - an ally on which they had hitherto relied with much assurance. We started, and the very firstnight a blizzard |