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The Hood River Glacier, Hood River, OR., May 11, 1895, page 2

A PIONEER

Amos Underwood of White Salmon, Wash., was in town today. Capt. Amos Underwood was one of the earliest settlers, and has lived in this vicinity since 1852. He was the commander of the little band of heroes who went to the relief of the settlers at the Cascades in 1856, before Lieutenant Sheridan -- afterward General Sheridan of the Union army, and one of the leading generals of the civil war -- marched his command forward and punished the Indians for their barbarous acts toward defenseless women and children. The captain and his volunteers stopped the redskins in their devilish work, and Sheridan followed soon afterwards and gave them a lesson in which they have not forgotten. Although past the meridian of life, he is still hale, hearty and active as he was twenty years ago, and is possessed of a very retentive memory. The incidents of that terrible episode in the history of the Northwest is still fresh in his mind, and their relation adds to the esteem in which all old pioneers are held by those who settled in this region at a later date. - Mountaineer.