Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-15
TIL SIOUX,
Report of Fight in which n In
d1Rus ars befeated and sitting
HulI Wounded,

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Report of u Fight in which n In
dlaus are Defeated and sitting
BulI Wounded.
OMAHA, August 14.-An official
telegram from Fort Laramie to-day
says the report Of General Terry's
fight with Sitting Bull is confirmed
through Indians coming into the
Spotted Tail agency. They report
a heavy engagement, resulting in
the defat of the Indians with great
loss and Sitting Bull wounded.
Heavy fires are seen from Fort
Laramie to the eastward. 1t is
feared the Indians have attacked
the hay ranches on MitchelTs bot
toms and burned the supply Of
hay.
CHICAGO, August Is. = The
Times correspondent, wrstlng from
Fort Buford, August 18th, via Bis
marck, August nth, says: "Terry's
force, which left Rosebud on the
Sth, numbered a fighting force Of
1900 men, and was accompanied by
a train numbering 225 wagons,
containing supplies for thirty days.
Terry, with a view of forming a
junction with Crook, will move
down the west bank Of the Rosebud
for a distance Of seventy miles,
when the combined force will en-
deavor to engage the Indians in
the region of Big Horn Mountains.
The Grow scouts report that the
main body Of Sitting Bulls band
are encamped on Sinking river, a
tributary of Big Horn, and to en-
gage them it would be necessary to
cross the Big Horn mountains,
which will be an almost impossible
undertaking at this season of the
year. There appears to be no pros
pect Of another engagement with
the Sioux unless the Indians desire
to make a fight. The troops will
be unable to overtake them before
the approach Of cold weather.
1t is reported that a large band
of the northern Indians have beer
seen crossing the Missouri river be.
low Fort Benton, north, into the
British possessions, and it is MOI
, believed that they will make stanC
against the troops again this year.
Major Sanger, Of the Seventeenth
/ Infantry, has been left in charge o
Che supply camp at the mouth o
/, the Rosebud, which has been gar
risoned by a company Of %infantr,.
f and one hundred and twenty dis
/ mounted cavalry. The garrison
S has been supplied with three Gal
r ling guns. Considerable Hines
prevails in the supply camp. Gen
Terry has decided to retire his en-
r tire command to the mouth Of tn
= Rosebud. About September lot
all the troops will be withdraw
After that date the command wi
march overland from the suppl
d camp along the north bank of I'll
.e Yellowstone to a point opposi'
d Fort Buford, where a ferry will
Il provided to move the command
HAt -.
" the east bank of the Missouri. III
k troops from that point will marc
,e overland to garrison the posts
e. Dakota and along the Nilsson
k. river. The steamer Far West W.
10 remain at the mouth of the hos
nt bud until the return Of the troo
ID and will convey the sick al
nt wounded and such of the suppl
Il. and camp equipage as will be pc
nd sible to the mouth Of the YeHo
no stone and down the Missouri. 4
w. of the steamers, with this exec
IT. ton, have been taken ont Of t
nd river.
a. WAsH1NaroN, August l5-Gc
st Sherman states that he has receiv
a similar report from another dir
on ton to that published yesterdi
IN, stating that a terrible battle h
hit taken place between General Gro
ms and the Sioux, and that the lat
rat had about been annihilated'