The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-07-27
SI1TING BULLS HISTORY.
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From the Little Rock Evening Star, July teJ
LITTLE ROCK BARRACKS, ARK.,
| July 10. 1876
| The New York Herald lately had u
notice Of an .Aufobiographical Sketch
OF the Indian Sitting Bull" who has
recently como into such prominence by
| the death of Gen. Custer and his com
panions. This book IL great curiosity.
II purports. by means Of pictures
drawn by timsclf, TO Illustrate ZONE.
Of the mts disting' IL led feais OF
| valor In the life Of one Of
the most remarkable TDdians which the
country has produced. IT The life OF
Sitting bull II dispassionately consid.
cred he must take high rank among the
/ unlettered savage military chtoftains OF
history. His recent battle with Gen.
Crook lifts him away out Of the list OF
i vulgar savages, and gives him claim
| to be considered sltillful general. The
manner In which he disposed his forces,
| taking advantage OF the topography OF
| the battle field wherever II presented
ltself. aud his skillful maneuvering to
divide Crooks forces. and the desperate
manner In which he fought TO prevent
the reunion OF the forces after he had
divided them, show this unlettered In
| dian to be n natural born general. His
| tactics were to pierce the cpemy's cen
tire, and this he did In very mastery
manner. His treatment Of Custer shows
him TO be M cunning in his strategy M
| he In skillful In his tactics.
SITTING BULLS COUP p'ETAT.
He decoyed the brave cavalry officer
into detile OF the mountains, where he
fell a prey to the Indians. who doubt
less surrounded him. From my know
ledge OF Indian character and tactics,
think II very doubtful whether Custer
was able TO infiict any very severe injury
on his foes. word more as to the tao
tics OF Sitting Bull and then l shall
| have come to the true history Of the
book referred to In the beginning Of
| this communication. The plan OF the
Federal leaders or perhaps IL would be
more proper to say leader, for Gen.
Sheridan had no doubt planned the
campaign which Crook. Terry and Glib
bons are executing contemplates the
combined movement OF three separate
invading columns. Crook leads one
from the neighborhood OF old Fort 9.
+. Smith on the South: Terry's forces
move from the East, below the junction
Of the Missouri and Yellowstone, and
Gibbons forces come from the North
west. The forces of Terry and Gibbon
we're TO make junction somewhere
Horn, and then move against the
Indians. Crooks command was to
come In from the South, driving the
Indians back upon Terry and Gibbon.
and thus forcing them into cm de
sac. The tactics Of Sitting Bull seem to
have been those pursued by the great
Napoleon in his famous campaign Of
1914, and we're the same practised by
Gen. Lee Mt Richmond In 1864 -65. when
the armies OF Grant and Butler. the one
from the Rapidan and the other from
the James. we're operating against the
Confederate capital In military par
lance. he is moving on interior lines.
which. being shorter than those opet
ated on by his enemies. enable him to
strike them with great rapidity in places
remote from each other. This he
seems TO have done. for after his battle
with Crook he Immediately planted
himself across the path Of Terry. and
with what effect the melancholy fate Of
Custer and his command too painfully
toll. Acting on these interior lines,
which he seems to know so we'll how to
do, he has his enemies at immense dis
advantage, and before he can be maneu-
vered or fought out OF bis position there
luttSt bS u kIStb SuSIibCC VI tllt. uitL
he will be driven out by one or the other
Of these means, or both, there can be no
doubt.
NOW FOR THE TRUE HISTORY
OF the Pictorial Life OF Sitting Bull"
drawn by himself. In 1869 10 ] was sta
toned Mt Fort Buford, mt the mouth OF
the Yellowstone, as part OF q garrison
under the command OF Lieut.. Col. Nor
row, Thirteenth Infantry, now COM
manding at Little Rock Barracks. Col
Morrow had been successful In not only
lighting the hostile tribes that infested
the country around the fort and some
times attacked detachments OF troops.
but also in winning the confidence Of
the friendly Indians. He was anxious
to meet Sitting Bull, who had sent more
than one party to the neighborhood Of
the fort, and to arrange for visit from
the Indian chief he sent several Indians
as sort OF embassy to his camp. Col.
Morrow proposed that Sitting Bull
should come to Fort Buford with not
more than ten warriors, under pledge
for his personal safety. The spring was
approaching, when the streams would
all be swollen by the freshets. and Sit
ting Bull declined to come at that time,
but made some indefinite promise OF
visit In the future. BY way Of showing
his regard for Col. Morrow, OF whom he
had heard so much, he sent him a vol
ume Of his autobiography, saying there
was another volume which would be sent
at another time. The Indian by whom
the message and book were sent proved
untrue to his trust and sold the book to |
one Edward Lambert for q few pounds |
Of sugar. Lambert gave 1t to DR.. Kim
ball. The facts all leaked out, and Col. |
Morrow permitted the surgeon to retain |
the book for the purpose Of sending it |
to the Army Museum at Washington,
but directed that two fac SMILES OF ii |
be made by Corporal O. s. Marston, E |
Company, Thirteenth Infantry. This |
was done. and Col. Morrow has one of |
them in his possession and / have the |
ether
The book is curious, not only as illus |
trative OF the life Of famous indian,
but Is valuable also as an exponent Of |
Indian pictorial art, and the true his !
tory as to how it came into the posses |
sion Of the white man is worth preserv-
ing.
SITTING BULLS EARLY LIFE.