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 of the husband and three sleeping children and the burning of the dwelling and bodies on the fatal night of February 22nd, is most pathetic.

To Port Orford on July 2, 1856, came the last of the surrendered hostiles to the number of 1,300, with old Chief John in the rear; and he only surrendering on condition that his comrades should not suffer punishment for their war. They were conveyed to the Siletz and Hoskins Reserves, where a young lieutenant of the army was in charge—who later became the great Phil. Sheridan of Civil War fame.

Other officers experienced much of their service and early discipline in the Indian troubles just ended, and who at one time or another exercised their military authority in the fortifications here at Port Orford. Some afterwards became great generals in the Civil War for the Union, among whom may be named Generals John F. Reynolds, A. J. Smith, E. O. C. Ord, C. C. Augur, W. H. Buchanan, A. V. Kautz, and Silas Casey. Of these, it was General Reynolds whose corps led the vanguard of the Union armies at Gettysburg in the first day's fight of that terrible battle, and there met his death.

A tragic remnant of the Indian wars here was upon Battle Rock in the hanging to death in 1857 of the Canadian Indian Enos, once the trusted guide of the famous Colonel John C. Fremont, but whose betrayal of the friendship to the settlers at Gold Beach, near here, on that sad February night, was known to those who had escaped the massacre, and were witnesses against him.