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march to Dry Creek was made without incident and we reached it just as the sun was rising. To our dismay and grievous disappointment, the spring and pool were found to be about dry, and the dead, scalped and naked body of a white man was found lying in the dry basin of the pool. The body was filled with arrows and had suffered numerous and unmentionable indignities. The fragment of a gray shirt still hanging about the shoulders of the dead man indicated that he was in all proba- bility a soldier. He was evidently a courier from Fort Carring- ton, and had been waylaid and shot the night before while trying to scoop out the sand in the little basin to find a drink of water.
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