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their overcoats which were mostly kept rolled was an affair of shreds and tatters. The main thing was all there however--the ability to fight. They had humiliated the powerful and defiant Cheyenne tribe on their own chosen battle grounds. Colonel Sumner looked the ideal cavalry colonel, grizzled, erect, ? and always on duty. I never heard of his being "stumped" but once by a subordinate and that was by Lieut Owen Chapman who was now with us. Some years before Chapman was serving at a post commanded by Col. Sumner who always appeared in uniform coat buttoned to throat at reviles for receive the reports of his officers. One morning Chapman did not appear and the colonel sent his orderly for him. Chapman came forth in a hurry buttoning his coat as he hasted along, approached the colonel and saluted.