Note 59 — Part II The War With the Sioux

One bullet smashed the pipe of a small camp stove in Captain Mills’ tent. When the Eastern papers learned the interesting fact that Mills’ stovepipe had been smashed, that gallant officer was severely censured, and much ridicule was heaped upon him, under the impression that he wore a “stovepipe” hat in action. By the way, when Captain Broke, of the British frigate Shannon, boarded the American frigate Chesapeake, Captain Lawrence, in the War of 1812, he wore just such a hat!