The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-09-22
THE INDIAN CAMPAIGN.
4 Newspaper Correspondents Who Does
Not Admire GEN. Crooks style Of In
dian Fighting.
/ From The Chicago Tribune.l

her way up the Yellowstone with Gov
eminent supplies, burst her larboard
cylinder, and had TO tie up at point be-
tween Coulson Rapids and Glendive
Greek. To repair the broken ma
chinery, Capt. McGarry sent his Clerk,
Mr.. John Barr, and a crew of eight men,
in the metallic life boat, TO Bismarck,
which gave me the long-looked-for OPP
portunity of escaping from the duh life
of the army sent out TO make war upon
Sitting Bull. Mr.. Barr ran the yawl
day and night, and he is entitled TO
great praise, for very few steamboat
men would undertake 10 navigate either
river down stream Of night.
On the night of the 2jth, Gen. Terry
received n dispatch from Gen. Sheridan,
which at once altered all his plans for
continuing the campaign. The dispatch
ordered n cantonment of the Fifth and
Twenty-second Infantry and Fifth Cav
airy to be made at the junction of the
Tongue with the Yellowstone River, TO
send the first battalion of the Second
Cavalry and the Seventh Infantry, un-
der Gen. Gibbon, TO Forts Ellis and
Baker, in Montana, and TO
CEASE ALL OFFENSIVE OPERATIONS
on or before October Is. To make the
cantonment, it was absolutely necessary
that Gen. Terry should at once forward
up the Iellowstonce the immense
supplies which would be required 10
subSist the three regiments till nayiga-
ton was resumed in the spring. The
steamers Far West, Josephine, Carroll,
Silver Lake, Benton, Durfee, and j. NJ.
/ Chambers were at once put into COM
mission TO transport the supplies; and,
as there was no telling when band of
hostile Sioux would put in an appear
ance on the Yellowstone, each boat had
TO be provided with heavy guard.
Between Glendive and Tongue River
there were also two or three portages
TO be made, requiring additional heavy
guards. SO the execution of Gen.
Sheridan's order would leave Gen. Ter
ry without corporal's guard for Of
fensive operations.
Gen. Crook, having accomplished his
strategic movement, of marching-up the
hill, then down again. on the 5lst start
ed back for Nebraska, via the Little
Missouri route.
Ii is, perhaps, too early, and not even
the duty of this correspondent, to sum-
Marie the results Of the late campaign
against the Indians Ii will undoubtedly
be made the subject of Military Com
mission appointed by Gen. Sherman.
or of one of the Congressional Military
Committees. That there has been
SAD BLUNDERISG SOMEWHERE
is now generally conceded by intelligent
officers at the front. Some Of these
have gone 30 far rs to say that, should
the higher authorities fail To investigate
the conduct Of the war, they themselves
would demand Court of Inquiry.
| will, however, venture this asser-
ton: That Gen. Terry never knew
where Sitting-Bull was after the 26th
of June; and this other assertion: that
Gen. Crook did know where Sitting
Bull was rs late as Aug. ,, when he
broke camp on Goose Greek. From a
careful study Of the Indian situation,
Gen. Crook knew that where the 4ith /
parallel crossed tie 10th longitudinal
line, and Whereabouts, was a vast scope
Of country which for 20 years has been
neutral ground for plains Indians. a
district - miles broad and 200 long, .
Astounding in game, amply supplied I.
with grass and water, and sheltered I
from storms. IL has been neutral /
ground for Cheyennes and Arapahoes, /
on the south BannOcks aud Shoshones, !
on the west; Crows, Asiniboines and I
Blackteet on the north; Ogallalas and .
other Sioux on the east. IL has been /
neutral ground TO this extent: that no
small hunting party dared to occupy it I
Of 4
knew (or else good many of his ofli- /
GERS lied 90 your correspondent that I
Sitting-Bull and his allies fell back
AFTER THE CUSTER FIGHT,
and occupied that district. II is shown .
on the maps as the beadwaters of the .
Big Horn River and its tributaries. I'm
this secluded region, with game i'm .
abundance, and grass for his immense /
herd OF ponies, with every stream full .
Of trout and other fish, and with "A eli
mate as mild and equable As the valley .
of the Sacramento, Sitting Bull has
been quietly occupying himself in re-
covering his warriors from the wounds .
incident TO his two great battles, and
in planning for fresh victories.
But, il Sittin2Bull was there when
Crook left, on Aug. 8, and has never
moved from there, say you, how do
you explain the heavy trail which
Crook followed from the Big Horn
Mountains down the Rosebud, and
which Terry and he followed across
the Tongue and Powder River regions?
THIS - THE EXPLANATION:
When Gen. Terry first moved up the
Yellowstone, he made supply depot at !
the mouth Of the Powder River. After
the reverse of June %, he only fell back .