Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-09-11
Tie Indian Farce.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF COLUMBIA, !
In TIE FIELD, CAMP EPSTEIN,
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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT. OF COLUMBIA, |
In TIE FIELD, CAMP EPSTEIN,
HENRY LAKE, August 81.
10 VIM T Sherman, General United States
Army, Helena, Montana -
Yours of the 26 received. You mlsunder.
stood me-, De7er flag 1t was the command,
including the most energetic young officers, that
we're worn out aud weary by most axtrsordl-
nary march. You need rot fear for the cam.
paige. Neither you nor General Mcdowell
can doubt my pluck and energy. My Indian
scouts are Oh the heels Of the enemy. My sup
plies have just come, and We move in the morn
ing and Norwood now en route two days ago,
to operate from Ellis and the Crow Agency.
The indians captured party of eight gen.
,emen and two ladies, on Lower Geyser Basin,
Friday evening last The bostiles will probably
cross Sinking river about one hundred miles
sou! heas, from the Crow Agency.
HOWARD,
Bleader General, Comd'g. Dept
The following dispatch from General Howard
to General Sherman was forwarded By General
Sherman 10 the War Department:
VIRGINIA, MONTANA, August 81.
Gen. w. I. Sherman, Fort ShaW:-
Just arrived here to communicate with Cen
cral Mcdowell. After the extraordinary efforts
t. cvertako Gibbop, with horses much jaded,
moved raridly 10 bead eff Indians at or near
Pleasant Valley. They delayed me little BY
their apparent move, westward but did not
lose march. sent small force 10 Henry
Lake to skirmish with aud delay them. The
officer stayed fur days, and concluded that
they had broken for tbs Wind River country.
The txt day, however, the 23d, the Indians
passed Henry Lake through Lscbee Pass, with
my force in c!us3 pursuit. They sampeded
part Of ny mules just before dawn, and 10 the
effort to recover them brought Oh sharp Skin
mish. after which they h,d, as usual. My
command stays at Henry L:kc for supplies.
While my Indian scouts watch and bother the
hcs,ilcs, what | wish ia from some eastern force
the hosties be headed off btiJro they disafteot
the Crows. or unite with the SicuX They
nave had some reinforcemepts 10 Montana
picked up plenty Of excellent stock. and though
worried and depleted iu uumbers are siIl able
to give battle and do much damage. They have
the best arms and plenty CT ammunition. L
hear that Miles, probably S:urges, is ca the
Yellowstone, not far from my front Is that
true? My force, all told, is about 200 cavalry,
300 infantry, fifty scouts and fifty armed pion
GERS. My command is 80 much worn by over
fatigue and faded animals that l cannot push it
much further. Ii Miles or Slurges is near by
with Norwood's Company, just sent to Ellis,
and the fifty Iodau scouts that l will send
thither, or on the heels Ct the hostiles, | think
may stop near where am, and 10 few days
work my way bacI, to Fort Boise slowly aud
distribute ny troops before sow falls in the
mountains. Wheaton has returned to Lewis.
too, Iiaho, from his successful march north
ward, ard will pick up any small hostile par
tics sknlkiug in his Deighborhood.
HOWARD,
Commanding Department.
| CHICAGO, September 9 -Geueral Gibbou
las positive Information that Sitting Bull is
still north Of the line, and apparently has nc
! intention OF comng south.
| Z. Ii. SHERIDAN,
Lieutenant General.