The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-06-07
Army Intelligence.

TIE SIOUX EXPEDITION DEPARTURE OF A Portion,
OF THE FORCa.
portion Of the force destined to operate aqainst tina
Sioux and other hostile Indian tribes marched from
Carlisls Pennsylvania the I'd inst It consisted o.
one battalion of four companies Of the % regiment OF
United States Infantry under the command Of Brsvet
BrgaAer General E. A. Hitchcock, cl,nel OF the rsg-
ment The battalion lie composed Of company A. Captain
G. e. Lowell LIST Lieutenant Caleb Smith, and LIST Lieu
tenant James Curtess. Company D, Captain w. NJ
Gardner, I'd LieutensntJ ]. D. O'Connen. Company G.
Bevet Major Il. ". Wessells Captain and
% Ieuenants I. Sheppard, with I'd Dragons, (tsm-
porsriy attached) Company Captain Delozier David.
son, LIST Lieutenant sweeny. LIST Lieutenant Geo..
H. Paige, regimental quartermaster and acting adu-
tant and Assistant Surgeon D. 7. Magruder, form the
The battalion numbers about three hundred and iftv
rank and fe who all in excellent health spirits
and highly discipned. This force would have left Z
month ago, but for the cholera and small pox having
broken out at jefferson and Fort
where was contemplated they should touch ON their
be estsblished to receive from General Harvey
At st. LOUIS (who commands the expedition to get
supplies at Fort Leavenworth 1t being the nail
taIy post on the Missouri to headquarters.
Inc ATTEST accounts from the Upper Missouri to the
and preparing s1s a. soon a.
get chances and that the snow has entirely dsappearsd
10 give better idea OF the nature OF the expedition
lowing i an extract from General Orders, No II =
ceted "Head quarters OF the army, No. g. March 2Sth
1856" and Is headed a. follows:-
81 The following arrangements have been ordered by
the War Department, with . view 70 the operations
about to be undertaken against the hostile Sioux and for
the purpose OF protecting from Indian hossties the from
tiers Of Kansas and Nebraska and the emgrant routes
leading from the river to the Wes The or
der goes on to state tuat Gen Harvey Colonel dra
goons 10 assigned to the command Of the expedition &C.
cordng to his brevet Of brgader general that
ne shal mako his reports TO the head quarters Of
army direct The military posts and troops that are to
constitute Harneys command Forts Riley, Kearney
Laramie, and the posts to be established on the Upper
MesRsipp-St. Pierre the head quarters Riley, Kear.
ney and Laramie to be garxsonef by the 6tn nfan
try and light battery-company COZ 4th artillery
Fort Riley to be the headquarters of the eth Fort ST.
Pierre be gerraoned by six companies the "a nfan
try and four companies of cavalry We@t
The cavalry force Ia to be employed during the sum.
ner or until active operations about to commence
In giving protection to the frontiers, emgrants, &c.
hight companies OF cavalry NEW regmsnts) are to BE-
ADDED as aoon as practicable to Hsrneys conzsnd and
when this done the cavalry force win distributed as
Pierre; and six, in reserve, at Fort Riley.
These are the only arrangements that have besn sds
80 ar that we know thiog about The companies Of
the plains during the summer either in the nsghbor
hood OF Fort Atkinson or the Big Tmbers.
Capt. A. B. Eyer, who has, for the two years had
command of the arsenal at this paoe has BEEN ordered
TO Old Pains Comfort His departure will be regretted
by his friends a. this place Capt has been
5ueceeded In command here by military store keeper
q. Hrmphries who with his family, arrived IN the
Eastern stage, ON Sunday evening lAst-L;le Rock Ar
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