He was with Colonel Forsyth in the battle with the Sioux at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

I had met him previously, when I was in the United States Indian service in Kansas.

He informed me that he mustered in the first four companies of the Third North Carolina, and the Colonel and his staff, and that he had never met a more capable man than Colonel Young.
The Third North Carolina has never seen active service at the front, and, as the Hispano-American war is practically a closed chapter, it will probably be mustered out of the service without any knowledge of actual warfare.

I thought, however, as I stood on the dry goods box and gave them kindly advice, and looked down along the line, that if I was a soldier in a white regiment and was pitted against them, my regiment would have to do some mighty lively work to "clean them out." CHARLES FRANCIS MESERVE.
Shaw University, Raleigh, N.C., Jan.

25, 1899.
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