Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-09-22

dispatch just received from Gen. Sheri-
dan countermands the order to winter a
regiment of cavalry on the Yellowstone,
which renders winter campaigning i'm
possible and indefinitely postpones the
subjection of the Sioux Gen. Terry
leaves the field, having accomplished no
purpose of the expedition, and with one
quarter of his troops killed by bullets or
exposure. ,....
CHEYENNE Sept. l6.
A courier who left Gen. Crooks com
mand Sept. 10 brings the following
news to Sept. 8: Since Gen. Crooks
column turned south toward the Black
| Hills on the 9TH inst. there has been con-
! siderable hardship through bad weather
and living on bacon and hard bread, and
there was a good deal of grumbling. On
the 7th it was decided to send portion
of the pack train ahead, under escort of
| Col. Mills, with fourteen men on the best
horses of each company of the Third
Cavalry, making $50 in all. Lieuts. Won
Lutwitz, Schulle and Crawford composed
the subordinate officers, and Frank
Gruard, Crooks chief scout, was to serve
both as guide and scout Yesterday
evening he discovered through the rain
and fog, without being himself observed,
hostile Sioux village, consisting of forty
one lodges, band of several hundred
ponies and few American horses. Mills
fell back few miles, hid his command
in ravine, and at two o'clock this morn
ing marched for the village, which was
situated on little creek, tributary of
Grand or Owl Creek. He formed on the
north side before daylight and ordered
Lieut.. Schawka. of Company NJ, to charge
through the village, while the rest of the
force, dismounted, were to form a skir-
mish line on either side and pick off
the Indians as they came out The lat
ter were completely surprised, and scat
tered out pell-mell, half naked, return
ing the fire to some extent. Their
ponies were effectually stampeded, but
owing to Mills small force he only sue
ceeded in securing the lodges and prop
erty therein, and about 140 ponies. |
There was an immense quantity of dried |
meat, berries, etc, all that Crooks whole |
pack train could carry, and sufficient to !
postpone the proposed purchase of sup
plies. There were wagon loads of robes |
and spoils of all kinds. The guidon of |
the Seventh Cavalry, which Custer used !
in the Little Horn massacre, and various
other articles of wearing apparel worn
on that occasion were also captured. A
quantity of corn stored at the mouth of
Powder River as late as Aug 5, where
Terry was fired on, was among the spoils.
Lieut.. Won Lutwitz, Company c. was
seriously wounded in the knee. Privates
Medburg and Charles Foster, of Com
R n or &c |
pany d, and Sergt. Glass, of Com
Pany E, were wounded, and Private
Wenzel, of Company A, was killed in
the action OF the morning. About seven
o'clock word reached Crook, fifteen miles
BACK with the, main column. He came
forward with sections from the cavalry,
reaching Mills at eleven o'clock. The
latter had kept up good picket fight
during the forenoon. Crook was very
much disappointed because Mills did not
report the discovery last night, and there
was plenty of time to have got up the
entire command and so effectually sur
rounded the village that nothing could
have escaped. But the General is also
pleased, all things considered. About
100 yards from the village is a little
ravine in which a band of seven warriors
and fifteen women and children were
safely lodged in caves in the rocks, and
it was in trying to dislodge them that
Mills lost his killed and wounded. Gen.
Crook desired to save the women and
children and, by means of guards inter-
fering, parley ensued. Three warriors
came out, one Chief named American
Horse being mortally wounded. Before
this parley was effected, however,
Frank White, citizen, was shot through
The heart, and Privates Kennedy and
of Company G, Fifth Cavalry,
we're wounded. About 30 O'Clock this
Afternoon a sudden picket firing sprung
up, beginning on Col Mason's front, re-
sulting in the wounding of Sergt Schrei-
oer, OF Company K and Private Dorm, Of !
Company f, Fifth Cavalry. 1t proved to !
be the result of reinforcements received
from Crazy Horses band, and a running )
attack all around the circle, but the !
troops were quickly thrown out and the !
enemy driven off in every direction. The
after got about a dozen horses which
we're too poor to get into camp. Back a +.
mile, on the line of march, the village
was thoroughly ransacked and the spoils ,.
divided around Col Mills and his men
got the ponies. There were found passes
20 "Good Indians'' from indiana Agent
Howard, of the Spotted Tail Agency, and !
an Illicit trader there, named F. A. ;
Boucher, dated respectively Jan. IA and :
Feb 1S, 1876 Much ammunition and :
many guns were found in the lodges, 7
and all the evidence is to the effect that .
these Indians were prepared for winter. !
There were probably 1000 warriors con- a
lected with it and their Chief is Roman .
Nose, formerly of the Cheyenne Agency. !
Il is regretted that other villages near =
by were not surprised and destroyed, but
his affair demonstrates the good policy
'f a stern chase after the Indians, even 9
With foot soldiers, who came in here to \
he relief of the cavalry as their part in :
he play gives them renewed vigor and i
ipirit. I...t.. !
SEPT. 1O.-There was little picket d
iring last night and this morning, and p
fter the command was on the march a i
number of Indians came down on the h
ear of the column buf mat with n a