{"id":550,"date":"2014-12-24T22:28:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T22:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/?p=550"},"modified":"2014-12-24T22:28:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T22:28:08","slug":"caught-the-devils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/?p=550","title":{"rendered":"Caught the Devils"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Chico Courant (Chico, California)<br \/>\nSaturday, December 9, 1865<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/indian0171.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-552\" src=\"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/indian0171.jpg\" alt=\"indian017\" width=\"383\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/indian0171.jpg 383w, https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/indian0171-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">CAUGHT THE DEVILS. &#8211;\u00a0The Humboldt Register gives an account of the routing of the gang, and killing of over fifty of the red devils who murdered Ballew on the Humboldt road.\u00a0 According to the Register&#8217;s account, Lieut. Osmer is entitled to promotion, and his men to a medal each for their bravery and tact in ferreting out the Indians and wiping them out when found.\u00a0 The Indians were found 100 miles north-west of Dun Glen, and did not discover the approach of the soldiers until within two miles of their camp.\u00a0 Lieut. Osmer&#8217;s command, was, &#8220;Come on, boys!&#8221; and they pitched in without any &#8220;red tape,&#8221; and with an energy irresistible.\u00a0 The Indians were well armed.\u00a0 One soldier, named David O&#8217;Connell was killed, and two painfully wounded.\u00a0 A portion of the plunder taken from Ballew&#8217;s wagon was recovered.\u00a0 Lieut. Osmer and his command may redeem the character of the regular army for Indian hunters.\u00a0 Pitch in and wipe out the last vestige of the red rascals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>From the collection of The Comtesse DeSpair<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chico Courant (Chico, California) Saturday, December 9, 1865 CAUGHT THE DEVILS. &#8211;\u00a0The Humboldt Register gives an account of the routing of the gang, and killing of over fifty of the red devils who murdered Ballew on the Humboldt road.\u00a0 According to the Register&#8217;s account, Lieut. Osmer is entitled to promotion, and his men to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/?p=550\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Caught the Devils<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-native-americans","category-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}