Bicentennial Story #19-Band Concert

Bicentennial Story #19-Band Concert

Account of General Alfred Sully and company camping south of Medora near the Custer Trail Ranch on August 7, 1864.

5/27/1975

2/2/1976

Father Louis Pfaller
Jack Hjort

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BS-019

Medora, ND

Copyright Stark County Historical Society and Dickinson Museum Center

Sully's Army on Sunday, August 7, 1864, moved three miles south present Medora and camped near today's Custer Trail Ranch. Whooping Indians called from the tops of the hills that they would soon wipe out the army and avenge the loss at Killdeer. One of the chaplains exclaimed; "Here we have a true picture of his Satanic Majesty's forces welcoming their new guests on Judgement Day."

One diarist noted that the regimental band played "Music which echoes its mellow strains over and among the thousand hills which surround us. The Poet says that Music soothes the aching heart and charms the Savage." It was the immigrant train that needed soothing. At night they shot at every moving object and came so close to shooting the soldiers who were changing guard that the battery men threatened to shell their camp if they did not stop endangering the guards. The threat stilled their trigger-happy guns.

This is Bicentennial Story No. 19, prepared by Father Louis Pfaller, for the Stark County Historical Society.

Pfaller, Sully Expedition, 37

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