The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1876-07-21
sitting Bnll,s Antecedents.

,lS OIL, MI. ruaslHUlS, Itie OeieEtte lroui l
gave the following account of the |
acts of Sitting Bull, the Sioux Chef whoes |
defeated and slew the gallant |
Custer and ali his on the Big Little |
Horn river
propose. to give brief sketch of his |
history. f1e has never treated with the
has never been in council bat |
once, and has never put his bloody mark to
an agreement OF peace. It is thought that
ne was am outlaw from the band who per-
It is reasonably Es.aiu that he was Al
en- issary to stir zap the Minnesota Sioux 70
the fearft Ssnassacre in that State. But le
first CAN'T to notoriety among the whites !
during Sul.-s and f5ibiey's expeditions il
1858 and 1854 He fought Sally in the coun-
cry north OF the Black Hills and i'll bra
e1ief 10 come out and engage III individual.
combat. Suliy drove him through the Sac
Lands beyond the Powder River. when h.
retired into the Big Horn country, droye
,ptit the Crows who hunted there, and since
then has made it his stronghold. To those
who are hnlcsl about treaty obligations,
call attention TO the fact that this last batLle
was fought on the Crow reservation, Til,
Crows lighting side.
In 1865 he nude was the steamboat:
on the river, captured, tortured, and kille.
several small boat-loads OF miners, AM
iecin ated the iseeS and MandaTIs, friendly
Indians since the days OF Lewis and Clarke.
These friendly indians found no protector
IN our nag that covered them. Early IL.
1866 he attacked and enueaVored To capture
"a standard steamer; but it happened X
nave u detachment OF troops and II load o.
vcll-arlned miners Oh board, and he suffer
ell bloody repulSe. Later Il peace com
mission was sent to meet him. The council
was held on the bluffs at the moItl OF IN,
Yellowstone, opposite old Fort Union. lie
received the presents graciously, thei.
,Hhcedled the commissioners out OF LNventA
Kegs OF powder and ball, and then broke vi
.he council and Went Tor their scilps
Laughter They escaped to the steamer
md under shower OF their own bullets 20.
safe across to the fort. That commission
az. ~ l.,
.est of that fail and winter lac couIG.itel
.,imseif with besiesins Fort BuIord anL
nurderiug all Strag-iers from the g:'rrf
,on. IN this lnGtorlouo luactlNity has FOL.
.OwcrsS began To desert him, and nc be1tu
organizing an expedition in 1867 to NvIp,
'ug the Gailatin Valley. Tine Montan.
volunteers We're organized to meet him an,
"ort flilss. was established, and lie gave
that up.
linen III 1865 he declined to attend, IL,
laramie, where the treaty under diS,5GSs-
ON was made; but he present when tn.
ortS We're evacuated, tainted and iBsI.liet
,ur retreatiug soldiers, set fire to the quar-
.ers before they left, and but for the treaty
sioux would have attacked the troops, VIII,
we're marched out without the honors q
var. He then crossed the Yellowstone |,
wipe out The small settlement OF Muscle
| nell, but friendly Indian gave the set
lers warning. and they amDuscnded tho
| INVADER outside the village and Killed thiI-
.y-siX of his warriors, and he Ietreatea
| .eaving the bodies ON the field. This gal.
ant fight and glorious victory, bonn;
,chiveG with slight loss of life by the set
| .Iers, was heralded by the peace policy party
| IS waihon m..ssacre, although the vic: i'm,
l lad marched three hundred miles to sIci
l hat settlement.
| In le69 he made raids on the AIandans
he Crows, the Rees, the Shoshons, :tnC
Jther tribes friendly to the whites. In tn,
| winter he blockaded Fort fSuiord, mad,
| several attacks upon it, and kept the gar
| rison cooped up for several weeks al Il time
| so that III 1870 General Hancock, then com
| handing that department., thought o organ
! ,zing AN expedition, similar To the On'
| recently undertaken, to bring linn to peace
l But it was about that time that the peace
| policy fever was raging at its height, and OF
| consultation with the ether generals OF tn
Army Hancock recommended that anothe
| effort should be made before proceeding L
| eXtremitieS. The Northern Pacirr Rail
| road would greatly simplify operations,
| vas going on at hat limo. and pending i.
| completion into the Big Horn county II
l dd vised that another effort should hn mad
| to keep Sitting Bull quiet. The next wiuta
l Congress appropriated 100000 to buy pCtc
with Sitting Bun until the railroad wOul
| enable us 10 control the situatiou. That We
,ishe celebrated Tetou-SiouX appropriations
l which some criticisms have been made
Into that matter do not propose now t
go. Anyhow they succeeded in drawing 0
- about half his force, including some OF i
todest warriors, and getting them into Il
| agency ut Fort Peck. He himself Sti
! refusing Ia treat, underworld to organize
| general confederation against the white
In 1872 lie had two battles with Custer.
both of which he WAS defeated and in is
\
| ed. He waGed war on the settlements
| Montana, killing settlers and running c
| stock: war on the Crows, whom hc trON
from their reservations; and war on II
| Shoshnuos, and on every Indian and over
| man friendly to the United States or til
, honored its flag In 1879 he attacked an
u captured two Government trains ON Il
3, Carroll road, took all the stock OF the Ca
| roll Stage Company, murdered some una
: med recruits for the Montana posts. NJ
tturning around, he again drove the Crov
: from their reservation. bcscigcd tho
i | agency, and caused them to fly for shelf
| to the settlements. which he hur,rssod amt
, winter caused him to Withdraw. During Il
II winter he attacked the settlements nj 10
| Peasc and drove them under protection
| military authority back to the town
, | iiozeman.
II Up to 1878 or ~ the peace commisSiC
had hopes that by the Government aga
u getting down on its knees to him pea
. could be secured, but finding he was intra
D table and demoraliZing all the Indians WI
: | wore disposed to treat. they saw that
4. must brought down; and the cOmnissiC
composed of such mon aS Mr.. Brunot IT
Mr.. Stewart, OF Philadelphia, and AL q
I peace men of that character pvtitioned q
Indian Department to take some means
, oriug this scDuudrot to terms. Their pc
D. ions resulted in the letters which {
gentleman from Iliionis Mr.. HCRLBUTl II
IL mad read to-day; aud the War Departure