Iowa During the Civil War Presents

The story of the recapture of Mrs. Eubanks and was told by my
great-grandfather on his 93rd birthday in 1952.

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This story was told by my great grandfather, William Aulder Dodd, whose father William Dodd served in Co. B, Seventh Iowa Cavalry Reorganized. He called it the Seventh Regiment. It was their duty to escort wagon trains, protect emigrants, guard the lines of travel, watching for movement among the Indians on the trail to Ft. Laramie.

"While on patrol, my father and the others in the army came across an Indian who was leading a white woman by a rope around her waist on foot. She had been captured by the Indians and her husband and two boys were killed. The Indian came across the river and saw the army men and tried to turn around. The woman kept falling trying to keep up.

The Army stopped him and told him to get down, which he refused. After they pointed their guns at him, he got down and they put the woman on the horse and made the Indian trot back to camp.

Dad tried to talk to the woman but she wouldn't talk until she reached the Army camp and saw all the uniforms. Then she said,"Where am I? Whose hands am I in? Where is my husband and two boys?" They executed the Indian."

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