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In two years Sergeant Emanuel Stance had five encounters with hostile Indians. In May of 1870 his Company rode out from Fort McKavett, Texas, to punish the Kickapoo Indians for raiding local settlements and to look for two captured children. With a detachment of only ten privates, he attacked a band of Indians herding stolen horses. He immediately gave the order to charge, scattering the Indians and capturing the horses. He and his men spent a hair-raising night camped at Kickapoo Springs listening to the Indians' war dance just beyond the hills. It was for this action he was awarded the Medal of Honor. The next day he attacked a band of hostiles about to ambush two government wagons, and when attacked by the same band later in the day, coolly turned his men about and drove his antagonists off, capturing six more ponies. Later, while watering their horses at a spring, his men were attacked by the Indians. After Sergeant Stance and his men returned fire the Indians retreated quickly, leaving the intrepid sergeant and his little troop proceeded on their way and recovered the two captured white children.
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