The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-07-09
THE INDIAN WAR.
General SherldanS Views on the Sltua-
llOn In The Balck nils not Dis.
couraging,
General Crook Heard from Through staff
Officer Ne Is Within Fifteen Miles
Of the Scene Of CuStar's
Massacre


eral Icrry's official report is received,
aud fully confirms the associated press
reports in all details. General Sher.
man has teleEraphci the following to
General sheridan;
Your dispatch received, think it
premature 10 think Of asking for vol.
unteer cavalry with the attendant eX.
penscs, II the SIX companies Of the
twenty Infantry be- given Ter
ry he will have about two thousand
men. Crook in q few days, will have
ifteen hundred, and viii give lou
Merrlls eight companies OF the llfth
cavalry which Will make him over
twenty.eight hundred strong We are
all right. Give us q little time,
Sheridan does not think the Indians
can number more than twenty-five
hundred or three thousand men, and
must be greatly embarred by their
wounded
CHICAGO, July Considerable eX-
element prevails at General Sher-
idan's headquarters concerning
Crooks command, from whom moth
ing has been heard since the engage
ment ON the Rosebud, 1t is not known
whether he has encountered the sava.
ges or not; but 1t is thought that no
has ugai" met the savagos, or he
would have co.operGted with General
Terry before this time. 1t is believed
at headquarters that the recent defeats
of the regular troops will cause u
change Ia the general character of the
campaign and movement OF troops
which will be more united, in order to
successfully cope with the Indians.
The following is the official report of
the field, stall, commissioned and non.
commissioned officers killed;
Seventh cavalry, q. Nj. Gustav, Bre-
vet Major General; NJ. w. Cooke,
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel; Dr. Lord,
Assistant Surgeon, j. NJ. DeWolf, Act
ing Assistant Surgeon; W. ii. spar
rows, Sergeant Major; Henry Noss,
Chief Trumpeter,
Company a, Corporals Dallan and
King; company Il, Lieutenant Hodg-
son, priyates Dowan and Moss, Colonel
T. Gustav, Lieutenant III. Warrington,
first Sergeant Balls, Sergeant Farley,
Corporals French, Foley and Ryan;
company ID, Charles Vincent, Farrier;
company II, Captain a. Il. Smith,
Lieutenant Sturgiss, Sergeauts Hah-
mer, Egden and James, Corporal Ho-
gan; company *, first Sergeauts
Winney aud Hughes, Corporal Cal
lahan aud Trumpeter Helmer;
Company |, Colonel NJ. kelogh,
Lieutenant ]. y Porter, LIST Sergeant
Warden, Sergeant Bristard, Corporals
Wilder, Morris and Staples; Interpre-
ter McGrae, J. Pardon, A. Blsrksmith,
II. Baily. Company Z, Colonel q, w.
Yates, Lieutenant Bully, LIST Sergeant
Kinney, Sergeant Morsey, Nickary,
aud Wilkinson, Corporals Callahan and
Freeman blacksmith Tanning. Com
pany q, Captain Douald Mcintosh,
Sergeant BHlgieIt and Considine, Cor
porals Martin, Haggman and Wells,
Henry Dodge, urumpeter, Crawford,
saddler. Company II, Corporal Lee.
Company NJ, Sergeant OHarris; Cor
pOrals Reate and Sturgis.
Twentieth Infantry, LIT John Is.
Crittendon; Civilians, Boston Gustav
Arthur Reed, Mark Kellogg, Charles
Reynolds, Frank G. Mann; Indian
scouts, Bloody Knife, Bohtailed Bill.
Observation-Disclosures OIL.
GERS II; acting and assistant surgeons
|; enlisted men 80 civilians 3; Indian
scouts ,.
1t Is stated that six companies of in
fantry at Detroit and on the lakes, are
ordered to the frontier Immediately.
The 9th cavalry are ordered to concen-
trate at the Red Cloud and Spotted
Tail Agencies, Dispatches from the
frontier and the Plains show desper-
ate feeling OF indignation against the
Indians.
OMAHA, July Captain Nickerson
of General Crooks staff, is here. Ito
left Crook on Tongue river, at the base
of Big Horn mountain, one hundred
and eighty.siX miles from Fort Fetter'
man, aud two hundred and siXty-two
miles from the railroad, awaiting sup
plies and reinforcements, consisting o
five companies which left Fettermar
July It'll, ANA are expected to reacl
Crook about the 18th Of July. lie viii
be joined on Monday by one hundred
and fifty Snake Indians, making hi
force about fourteen hundred. Cap
tain Nickerson does not apprehen,
any danger to the expedition Crook
location IL about fifteen miles from tn
scene of Custar's disaster.