INTRODUCTORY NOTE 



listed in the First Cavalry, and the following year 

 was sent to Fort Leavenworth and took part in 

 the Cheyenne and other campaigns. He was dis- 

 charged in l86i, and not very long afterward 

 became a wagon-master, in which capacity he 

 served in the army of the frontier. Mr. Peck 

 died March 25, 1909. 



G. B. G. 



July, 1914. 



