Veterans' Battallion

The 1st Colorado Cavalry was consolidated into the Veterans' Ballalion, field and staff listed below as appeared in the RMN in February, 1865. Soule had been Lieutenant in Co. K, now Captain Co. D.



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The Escape of Jack Peppers

"...Absquatulated..."

[RMN, Feb. 17, 1865, p.3.]

K Company

From a list of First Regiment personnel, as of Feb. 28, 1863, in The Trail, May 1909.

Seeing the name of Ham Hunt among K Co. enlisted men was a real eye-opener. Must be pioneer lawyer and brother of A. Cam Hunt (People's Court judge, territorial marshal, territorial governor and Indian agent). Could be an important dot in our little connect-the-dots here. Ham n' Cam Hunt. Don't say it three times fast.

Samuel M. Robbins, Captain
Silas S. Soule, 1st Lieutenant
John Oster, 2nd Lieut.
John E. Hill, 1st Sergeant
Thos. H. Gibbons, Q.M. Sergeant
Harrison W. Bell, Com. Serg.
Jno. A. Charters, 1st Duty Serg.
W.M. McOmber, 2nd Duty Serg.
Thos. H. Wales 3rd
Graham Nash, 4th
E.M. Quimby, 5th
John Simcox, 1st Corporal
Henry Hardy, 2nd
Orren H. Henry, 3rd
Louis Percival, 4th
James Donaldson, 5th
W.F. Eichbaum, 6th
Oswin G. Morley, 7th
Jac. D. Bonham, 8th
James Durkee, Blacksmith
Almon Burns, Farrier
Charles J. Eaton, Saddler

Armstrong, Al. W.
Thos. P. Arble
Jonas. Anderson
Joseph Bovee
Norris N. Bell
John Burgess
Hiram C. Brock
E.C. Bently
Lyman A. Carr
John Creech
Morris S. Christy
H.D. Chase
R.F. Cole
Lorenzo D. Debolt
Patrick F. Dailey
David E. Dodge
Antohny W. Davis
H.C. DeHaven
John Daun
W.E. Fairbanks
Michael Grealish
James Grealish
Peter Gray
Hamilton R. Hunt
Francis Harthorn
William Jones
George Klebe
Jno. S. Kirkpatrick
John Little
Harman Laidig
G.W. Morris
A. McDonald
Hugh McDonough
Arch. W. McBeth
Charles McBride
Wm. W. Oglesby
George Pool
Manfred M. Patch
Isaac Routh
Louis Reading
William Strait
D. W. Sowash
Wm. Sherman
Michael Tobin
Elias Veatch
Ed. C. Vanderbaugh
Robert B. Wallace
James Wynn
Richard Wilson
Wm. R. Wilson
Ona H. Woodward
George Woolbert
George Yarrow

Family Heirlooms

While encamped in the Western History Department the other day I ran across an old article in the Colorado Magazine about Hal Sayr (or Sayre) written by his son Robert. As you might imagine, it's a sympathetic account of Sayre's oddysey as a Colorado pioneer, miner and volunteer Indian fighter. Among many other interesting items (for instance, that Sayre and his partner Parmalee [Parmelee?] founded LaPorte, near Fort Collins) is the revelation by the author that "we still have a scalp taken by Major Sayre in this battle [Sand Creek]."

This confirms the testimony taken by the Tappan commission from a soldier who claimed to see Major Sayre dismount to carve a scalp on the afternoon of November 29, 1864. Many others were doing the same thing, but Sayre as First Major was one of the top ranking officers in the field. The testimony was presented as evidence of a breakdown in the command structure, or complete lack of one in the first place.

I wonder about that conversation, if there was one.

Son, I want you to have this. I've been saving it for you.

Ah thanks, dad. Uh ... Wow.

Maybe someday, you know, you can pass it on to your son.

That's great dad.

[shiver]

The multi-generational Curse Potential on that is off the charts.

Hal Sayre lived to old age in a mansion at 815 Logan.

Territorial Officers

Here is another good reference. Territorial Officers, as printed on the front page of the Rocky Mountain News in 1865. A.C. Hunt is Territorial Marshal, will be governor in a few years. Judge Harding has been under the gun in Feb. 1865, widely suspected of being the culprit who narrated the horrors of Sand Creek to lawmakers back in the States. A clear division emerges -- Evans, Elbert, Chiv and Byers, among others, face off against Tappan, Hunt, Browne, Harding, among others.