Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1878, 1876-09-27
THE SIOUX WAR.

Long DOG anu lnA ne
Bismarck Tribune's Dead Cor
respOndent.-Gen. Terry's aTrib .
ute to his Worth.
Gen. Terry and staff arrived on the
John M. Chambers from Fort Peck on
Wednesday last and left for st. Paul
the same evening. The General looks
none the worse for the summers cam
paign though he has lost some twenty
pounds in flesh and is therefore thinner
than usual. Colonels Smith, Hughes,
and Gibbs were sunburned but hearty,
and all we're, no doubt, heartily glad
that the campaign was ended. Gen.
Terry does not regard the campaign a
failure in view of the results which will
surely follow, but mourns with all good
and true over the loss of the brave Gus
ter, whose death remains, for the pres
ent, unavenged. Gen. Terry was assur-
ed that those in authority approved his
course during the. campaign, and in all
his command there are none disposed to
criticise him unfavorably. Some of his
plans miscarrieG. through no fault of
his, and failure to find and fight Indians.
resulted. Crooks failure to cooperate
fully with Gen. Terry was unfortunate,
and is no doubt one great cause OF the
apparent failure, and if we are not mis-
taken this subject will be fully canvass
ed, and on Crooks application may be
investigated.
In our last we stated that Gen. Terry
had gone to Fort Peck in pursuit of the
hostiles. The Indians numbering one
hundred lodges were under Long Dog
and Inkpaduty. The latter fred the
first shot in the Minnesota massacre,
fought during the war and fled to the
British Possessions. Long Dog is one
of the worst cut-throats unhung. 1t
was he who burned three wood choppers
at the stake on the Musselshell in the
spring of 1875, afterwards, aside from
smaller depredations, he murdered a
party Of eight in the same vicinity in
Guiding two women. The Indians,
when they reached Peck, were in ter
ribly demoralized and destitute condi-
ton. 1t seems Terry's column marched
within two or three miles Of their vii.
lage, one day, whereupon they abandon
ed tepees, travois, provisions and every
thing, and left for the British Posses
sions. Arriving at Wolf Rapids they
made their way across the river and
there offered to exchange ponies for
ammunition, offering forty dollar
pony for eighty rounds of ammunition
worth three dollars and a half in the
States. They were short of ammuni-
tion for hunting purposes, even. Fail
ing to get ammunition both at Wolf
Rapids and Fort Peck, they pushed north
saying they knew where they could get
it. They were armed, to some extent,
with ca:alry carbines and pistols, and
had several American horses and
some were wearing clothing from Gus
ter's command. They behaved them
selves very we'll, at Peck, but said they
were going north for arms and ammu
milton and would return and fight the
soldiers in the spring.
Major Reno, Gen. Terry says, made
magnificent march, leaving the Yellow
stone on the 10th arriving at Fort Peck
on the 18th. The Indians had then
crossed the river, however, and were
three days ahead Of Reno who had no
means of crossing until a steamer ar
rived. The Chambers arrived on the
18th with Gen. Terry and supplies.
Rcno's command having reached their
last hardtack this arrival was timely.
The Indians were then five days ahead
and had already, no doubt, crossed the
British line, so Gen. Terry returned
and ordered the troops to their respect
i've stations, the 9Th Infantry to Buford
and the 7th Cavalry to Fort Lincoln.
Major Sanger remains on escort duty
for the present on the Yellowstone
where the citizen teams are still elm
ployed.
Gen. Brisbin, Capt. McDougal, Maj.
Garland, Lieut.. Chance, Mr.. O'Kelly, of
the New York Herald, and Texas Jack,
were among those who came down on
the Chambers with Gen. Terry.
Gen. Terry paid handsome tribute
to Mark Kellogg, the Bismarck TRIBUNE
correspondent who was killed with
Custer. The General says he was pecu-
liarly adapted to his work and gained
the affections and esteem of all with
whom he came in contact. Being
a man we'll Informed and practical, he
always comprehended the situation
while his social qualities were such as
to commend him to everybody. He was
candid and straightforward under all
circumstances, and therefore to be re.
lied upon. The General says he solici-
ted Kellogg to 60 with him rather than
with Custer, on the March to the Little
Horn hut ne was so thorough a news