Post by markland on Dec 15, 2006 1:23:28 GMT -6
I found this interesting column commenting on Wallace's death in the Army and Navy Journal of January 3, 1891, p. 318. I had not fully read it until today and am still trying to get my jaw back into a normal position.
Billy
"Turning back to the pages of the JOURNAL of July 15, 1876, we find graphic report of the services of the forces operating against Sitting Bull's band of hostile Sioux and of the particular operations which resulted in the massacre, June 25, 1876, of the gallant General George A. Custer and many of the heroic officers and troopers of the 7th U. S. Cavalry. In the report of those participating in that disastrous campaign, we note the names of Captain Myles Moylan, Troop A, and of 2d Lieutenant Geo. D. Wallace, of Troop G. The names of those two are now brought forcibly and painfully before the nation from the fact that the former was wounded with others and the latter killed in the recent engagement with the Indians near Pine Ridge Agency. Of him, a Herald correspondent writes: 'Captain Wallace is truthfully described as one of the most popular men in the Service. He was a gallant officer and a thorough gentleman. He entered West Point in 1868, graduating with honors in 1872, and was only a few months over 41 years of age. Eight years ago he was married to Carrie M. Otis, daughter of the late George L. Otis, of St. Paul, Minn. Captain Wallace displayed his matchless heroism to splendid advantage at the battle of Little Big Horn. When Reno was driven to cover Wallace's adjutant fell from his horse mortally wounded. Wallace threw himself from his horse under a terrible fire from the savages, seized the wounded man, vaulted into his saddle and bore the officer towards the rear. The officer knew that he was dying, and told Wallace to drop him and save himself. Wallace carried the officer over a mile, forded two streams and was nearing a place of safety when the savages got so close that he was forced to abandon the officer in the bush, dismounting for that purpose and remounting after he had hidden him away. he was under a hot fire all the time and showed unlimited pluck.' Captain Wallace was a son of Lieut.-Colonel Geo. W. Wallace, U. S. A., who died Oct. 12, 1888, and his widowed mother lives in Short Hills, N. J. He leaves a wife and, we believe, children. It is a costly sacrifice to pay with such lives for our blundering management of Indian affairs."
Billy
"Turning back to the pages of the JOURNAL of July 15, 1876, we find graphic report of the services of the forces operating against Sitting Bull's band of hostile Sioux and of the particular operations which resulted in the massacre, June 25, 1876, of the gallant General George A. Custer and many of the heroic officers and troopers of the 7th U. S. Cavalry. In the report of those participating in that disastrous campaign, we note the names of Captain Myles Moylan, Troop A, and of 2d Lieutenant Geo. D. Wallace, of Troop G. The names of those two are now brought forcibly and painfully before the nation from the fact that the former was wounded with others and the latter killed in the recent engagement with the Indians near Pine Ridge Agency. Of him, a Herald correspondent writes: 'Captain Wallace is truthfully described as one of the most popular men in the Service. He was a gallant officer and a thorough gentleman. He entered West Point in 1868, graduating with honors in 1872, and was only a few months over 41 years of age. Eight years ago he was married to Carrie M. Otis, daughter of the late George L. Otis, of St. Paul, Minn. Captain Wallace displayed his matchless heroism to splendid advantage at the battle of Little Big Horn. When Reno was driven to cover Wallace's adjutant fell from his horse mortally wounded. Wallace threw himself from his horse under a terrible fire from the savages, seized the wounded man, vaulted into his saddle and bore the officer towards the rear. The officer knew that he was dying, and told Wallace to drop him and save himself. Wallace carried the officer over a mile, forded two streams and was nearing a place of safety when the savages got so close that he was forced to abandon the officer in the bush, dismounting for that purpose and remounting after he had hidden him away. he was under a hot fire all the time and showed unlimited pluck.' Captain Wallace was a son of Lieut.-Colonel Geo. W. Wallace, U. S. A., who died Oct. 12, 1888, and his widowed mother lives in Short Hills, N. J. He leaves a wife and, we believe, children. It is a costly sacrifice to pay with such lives for our blundering management of Indian affairs."