New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-25

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Of the book referred to in the beginning OF
this communication.
The plan of the federal Henderson per.
haps it would be better to say leader, for
General Sheridan has no doubt planned the
campaign which Crook, Terry and G,bbon
are neutrality-suspicious. the combined
movement of three separate invading col
umns. General Crook leads one from the
neighborhood of old Fort c. +. Smith
on the south; General Terrys forces
move from the east, below the junction of
the Missouri and Yellowstone, and Gibbons
forces come from the northwest. The forces
of Terry and Gibbon we're to make juno
tiOn somewhere near the mouth of the Big
Little Horn, and then move against the In
dams. Crooks command was to come
from the south, driving the Indians back
upon Terry and Gibbon, ard thus forcing
them into cul de sac. The tactics of Sit
ting Bull seem to have been those pursued
by the great Napoleon in his famous cam
paign of 1914, and were the same prac-
ticed by General Lee at Richmond IN
lS64-5, wnen the armies OF Grant and But
Ter, the one from the Rapidan and the other
from the james, were operating against the
Confederate capital. IN military parlance,
he is moving on interior lines, which, being
shorter than those operated on by his enc
mice, enable him to strike them with
greater rapidity in places remote from each
other. This he seems to have done, for
after his battle with Crook he Immediately
planted himself across the path of Terry,
and with what effect the melancholy fate of
Custer and his command zoo painfully tell.
Acting on these interior lines, which he
seems to know so well how to do he has his
enemies at immense disadvantage, and be-
fore he can be Unanswered or fought ont
of his position there must be great sacri-
fee OF lie. That he will be- driven out by
one or the other of thess means, or both,
there can be no doubt.
Now for the true history Of the pictorial
Lite of Sitting Bull, drawn by himself In
lS69-70 | was stationed at Fort Buford, at
a garrison under the command of Lieuten-
ant Colonel Morrow, Thirteenth Infantry,
now commanding at Little Rock barracks.
Colonel Morrow mad been successful in not
only fighting the hostile tribes that infested
the country around the fort and some
times attacked detachnents of troops, but
also in winning the confidence of the
friendly Indians. He was anxious to meet
Sitting Bull, who had sent more than one
war party to the neighborhood Of the fort.
and TO arrange for visit from the Indian
chief he sent several Indians az sort OF
Embassy to his camp.
Colonel Morrow proposed that Sittin g
Bull should come to Forr Buford, with not
more than ten warriors. under pledge for
his personal safety. The spring was ap-
preaching, when the streams would all be
swollen by the freshe.s, and Sitting Bull
declined to come at that time, but made
some indefinite promise OF visit in the
future. By way of showing his regard for
Colonel Morrow, of whom he had heard so
much, he sent him volume of his auto.
nv fhpTp another VOL
ume which would be sent at another time.
The Indian by whom the message and
book were sent proved untrue to his trust,
and sold the book to one Edward Lambert
for few pounds of sugar. Lambert gave
it to DIR. Kimball. The facts all leaked out,
and Colonel Morrow permitted the surgeon
to retain the book, for the purpose of send.
ing it to the Army Museum at Washington,
but directed that two fac-similes of it be
E, Thirteenth Infantry. This was done,
and Colonel Morrow has one Of them in his
possession and have the other.
The book is curious, not only as illustra-
tive of the life of famous Indian, but is
valuab BILE also as an exponent OF Indian pie
torial art, and the true history as to how il
came into the possession of the white man
is worth preserving.
This article is already long, but l will
add a line about the early history of Sit
tirr Bull. He is Sioux or Dakota Indian
For several years he lived at Fort Rice, OIL
the Missouri river, and was known as a
BLANKET Indian This is a term of scoru
or derision among the Indians, and is ap
piled to Indians who hang around" the
military posts and wear the white man;
blanket instead Ut the Indians buffalo robe
for you must know that the robe is the In
dams badge Of manhood. On day
for what reason - not known
a soldier struck Sitting Bull a blow
That was the blow IN whose tralr
has followed a long list of heroic deeds anG
United States, and to which the death Of
Custer and his command may be immediate
" traced. That blow aroused the spirit o.
a great soul which until then lad lain dor
mant. He at once flew TO the desert, where
he organized band from the disatfected o.
all tribes and made unreienting war on the
whites; and from that period, about ter
years ago, to this, he has been the terror OF
the country, from the falls OF the missouri
TO Fort Randall. and from the borders Of
Montana to Devils Lake. On May Il
1868, Sitting Bull attacked the village Of
Mussell Shell, one OF the tributaries of the
upper Missouri / was at the time en-
canped with a detachment of tro % neal
the town, and but fer the aid | Ctttred he
would have taken the place. He renewed
his attack on the twenty fourth, aud cap
tured nineteen head of cattle, after killing
two of my men. who were at the time
guarding the herd. | recaptured the herd
all accounts agree that he is brave mar
and an enterprising warrior. and recen
events indicate that he is possessed Of some
at least, of the highest qualities of General
ship. ROBERT NCGEST.
Major Twenty fourth Infantry.
MeteorolOgicnl and River Report.