Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-08-14
THE INDIAN WAR.
BLOODY STRUGGLE ANTICIPATED.

CHICAGO, July 27.-Special advices
just received from Gen. Crooks COM
mand, in camp at the mouth of the
Tongue River, Wyoming, July %, state
that this body of troops had moved four
teen miles north of Camp Cloud Peak
since July l6, and we're awaiting Gen.
Merritt and the Fifth Cavalry before re-
newing active operations. The dispatch
says that Merritt's force issnow en- route
here by rapid marches and will arrive
this week
Four Crow scouts arrived from Gen.
Terry's command on the 10th inst. with
dispatches dated the 10th. All are we'll.
On that date they were anxiously await
ing dispatches from Gen. Crook, which
the latter sent by special courier to Ter
ry on the 10Th, and if he has had good
luck he must have reached the confu-
ence of the Big Horn and Yellowstone
Rivers by this time Crook wants Ter
ry to march toward his command at
least half way, as the Indians in this
vicinity are mostly up in the mountains,
and there the battles of this war must
be fought. "Our Snake allies" he says,
positively assure us that the Sioux are
occupying the mountains above us, just
where Sibley's party struck them in full
force, and they will compel us to fight
them inch by inch. This will be dead
ly warfare. They know every foot of
those ranges of which we are decidedly
ignorant, and can guard every pass and
ambuscade us at every step. Having
plenty of dried meat, they can, with
what game they kill, make prolonged
resistance, and being adopts in all arts
of deviltry, they can burn the forests
about our ears while keeping free from
the fire themselves. Their hunting par
ties keep out on the buffalo ranges add
ing fresh meat to their stores every day.
The veteran officers here say that it
would be wise to accept volunteer regi-
ments if only to relieve the First, Fourth,
Sixth and Eighth Cavalry, which are ly-
ing on their oars around the other terri
tories when they ought to be marched
right here to crush the Sioux at one
blow. A regular tidal wave of troops
ought to be on the march now 10 support
our approaching movement. 1t is to be
hoped that our impetuous Lieutenant
General will avoid the error committed
by the Government during the first few
days of the rebellion-the error of not
sending enough men into the field to fin
ish the war thoroughly and at once"
81 am astounded," says Terry to
| Crook, '.at the numbers and skill of the
enemy This command will fight to the
last man, but officers and soldiers reeog-
nize the formidable character of the task
before them, and are radically down on
2 all half way military experiments. II
: the lessons of the past month are not
t thrown away in high places. Custer will
S not have died in vain" ist
/. Gen. Sheridan was called upon BY
f your correspondent to-day and question
e ed as to whether he felt at all apprehen
: sive of the fate of Crooks command
e The Lieutenant General looks upon th,
IS dispatches received. to say the least, a
d 'scarey" in the extreme, but says Their
i is no reason to believe that there is an,
! insecure feeling among the soldiers. Eur
v thermore, Gen. Sheridan says he think
d the Indian war will be a short one tha
| it is not an incipient rebellion that /
IN will not require the marshaling of tn
II hosts of the nation to beard the India
Of IN his wigwam. and he does not think
" advisable to get frightened. Gen. SheI
m idan's dispatch to Crook, immediatel
IS, after the Rosebud fight, was. 'Hit theI
es again, and bat them harder" and b
to says he is confident that it will be dom
th Leander z. Richardson. who W.
ly found scalped north Of Laramie, la
to Monday, was collecting material to fl
k, Ish the book which his father, the La
he A. d. Richardson, began.