From the "Northwest Post" Belle Fourche, SD, August 22, 1934, page 8

LAST RITES HELD FOR M. N. FROST, 93, WAR VETERAN
Milton Newton Frost, age 93, Civil War veteran, died Saturday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Minnie Hunt. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the Methodist church in charge of the Rev. E. C. Antrim. Burial was in Pine Slope cemetery.
The American Legion had charge of the services at the grave, and a firing squad fired a final salute to a departed comrade.
Milton Frost was born on a farm near Mt. Vernon, O., April 11, 1841. He was one of a family of eleven children. In the fall of 1857 the family moved to Ogle county, Ill., and a year after they moved to Iowa.
Later they settled on a farm twelve miles north of Emporia, Kan., where Mr. Frost grew to manhood.
In 1861 he married Orpha Louisa Sheldon. Three sons and one daughter were born to them. One son died in infancy and another died in June, 1932. His wife died ten years after their marriage.
Milton enlisted in the Union army at Americus, Kan., in August 1862. He was discharged from the service in August, 1865, having served three years and three days in the 11th cavalry.
In 1874 Mr. Frost married Louisa Ellen Shockley. Four children were born to this union? Two boys and two girls, three of whom survive. Mrs Frost died in April, 1899, in the twenty-fifth year of their marriage.
Six years ago Mr. Frost lost his eye sight, and since that time has been cared for by his daughter, Mrs. Minnie Hunt. Mr. Frost and daughter moved to Belle Fourche in 1929, and since that time have made their home here.
Milton died at the home of his daughter Minnie Hunt.
He is survived by one brother, T. B. Frost, of Americus, Kan.; one sister, Mrs. Martha Jaquith, also of Americus; two sons, Harry E. Frost, Belle Fourche, and Norman S. Frost, Los Angeles,; three daughters, Mrs. Lome Curtis, Everett, Wash., Mrs. J. W. Boon and Mrs. Minnie Hunt of Belle Fourche. There are twenty-two grandchildren, and forty-six great-grandchildren.
The American Legion had charge of the services at the grave, and a firing squad fired a final salute to a departed comrade.

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Co E 11 Kansas Cav from stone
Date of death and place from SD deaths on Ancestry

The Emporia [KS] Gazette, 30 May 1923, Wednesday
Milton N. Frost is another of the 11th Cavalry men. He enlisted at Americus [KS], August 5, 1863, for three years. He was mustered in to the service of the United States government at Leavenworth soon after, and was mustered out at Fort Riley in August '65.
He drove a team with the army to Fort Wayne, and saw his first fighting at Cane Hill. He was in the battles of Prairie Grove, the Little Blue, Lexington, and then was stationed at Westport.
He served successively in the infantry, cavalry and mounted artillery, about a year in each branch of the service. He served under Colonels Moonlight, Ewing and Plumb.
Mr. Frost was in the Indian expeditions on the plains after the close of the war. He received no wounds or injuries during his term of service.
Eli Fowler was a member of Emporia's own Company C, 11th Kansas. He enlisted in August 1862, for three years. This regiment was enlisted as infantry, but afterward became a cavalry regiment.
The Emporia company, which was made up of men from a wide scope of territory, was taken in wagons to Leavenworth. Old men and young boys, not eligible for war service, went along to bring home the teams.
Few able-bodied men were left on the town site. They drilled 30 days at Leavenworth, then marched to Fort Scott, and from Fort Scott into Arkansas.
This company's first smell of powder was when they met the Confederates at Fort Wayne, I.T.
The Union men captured four pieces of artillery and sent the Confederates flying. Several Union men were killed and wounded.
The fight lasted all one day, and that night the Union men slept in the deserted camp of the enemy.
The next engagement was the running all-day fight at Cane Hill, where the Confederates were driven back across the Boston Mountains.
It was mighty difficult getting across those mountains, and often when the roads were the worst, or there were no roads, the men helped to push the artillery up the inclines and out of ditches, as the horses couldn't make it alone.
The Union men took Cane Hill and camped there, but the Johnnies resented their presence and came back at them. There were many skirmishes all during the fall and during the winter.
Then came the battle of Prairie Grove, December 7, 1862, the history of which is familiar to all Emporia citizens. But what Emporia probably doesn't know is that Eli Fowler helped the late Capt. L. T. Heritage off the field after the Captain was wounded.
Mr. Fowler tells how he got Captain Heritage off the field and through an orchard, he doesn't know how, half dragging, half carrying him, past the Union lines, where they met an orderly.
Mr. Fowler made the orderly get off his horse and help put the wounded man in the saddle, then Mr. Fowler went with him, guiding the horse, until they were in sight of the flags of the hospital.
Captain Heritage managed to stick on the horse, and Mr. Fowler returned to his company. All that time he had not let his gun get out of his hands.
The battle of Prairie Grove lasted one day and part of the night. Both sides were ready to rest, and there were no fires that night on either line, and nothing to eat on the Union side.
It was a cold night, too, but fires would have disclosed their position to the enemy. The men slept as best they could on the cold ground, and were cheered and heartened next morning when a courier came, announcing that the Confederates had retreated.
The next move was the pursuit of the Confederates a second time over the Boston Mountains, and the capture of VanBuren, Ark., at which place also a considerable amount of supplies was captured--mostly sugar and corn.
The Union men couldn't carry these things away with them, and they couldn't destroy the corn easily, but they dumped the sugar--many hogshead of brown, sticky sweetness, into the river.
They filled their knapsacks with sugar, but eating it made them so thirsty they wished all the sugar had been dumped in the river.
Following this, the men were ordered into camp at Springfield, Mo., where they stayed most of that winter. Then they went into camp at Fort Scott, from which place about half the men were allowed to come home for a week or ten days. The others stayed to hold the camp.
After all had returned to Fort Scott, they were sent into Vernon county, Missouri. "We never did know what for, and I suppose we never will know," said Mr. Fowler.
Then they were ordered to Vicksburg, the order was countermanded, and they were sent to Kansas City to fight the guerillas. They stayed on the border several months. They were camped near Humboldt for a time, then went to Paola, scrapping more or less all of the time with the guerillas. They were near Paola at the time of Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence.
Following the Quantrill Raid the regiment went after the Confederate General Price and his army, who were venturing dangerously far north. They met Price at Lexington, Mo., and engaged in a running fight most of the way between that place and Kansas City. Price had 30,000 men--and the best thing the 2,800 Union men could do was to get out of his way as rapidly as possible.
The men of Company G were killed at this time--Charles Hyde, who was an orderly sergeant, and James Thomas. Hyde rode a white horse and was a target for a sharpshooter. Mr. Fowler saw him pitch off his horse, dead.
Pierce pursued the Union men to Kansas City where they were reinforced, and soon they turned Price and his men toward the south and followed them across the Arkansas River.
The Union men were returned to Kansas City, and from that place were sent to Western Kansas and Eastern Colorado to help keep the Indians in order, and were in that section of the country during the remainder of their service.