Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-08-13
The Indians.

The Indians.
DEER LODGE, MONTANA, Aug. l.-W. II.
Edwards has lust arrived from Big Hole, bring
;nr occonnts of terrible battle between Geo.
Gihhon's commsnd and the Nez Perccs on the
Rio Hole river August 9. Gibbons Command
consistjnp of 1872 men-l7 officers, !55 regulars
md 20 citizen volunteers-crossed over IRON
Ross Hole on Wednesday. Starting at eleven
O'clock The same night they moved doWn all
The troops with the exception OF few left 10
guard the transportation lew miles apoVe'
CLOSE to the Indian camp which was 90 me pig
Hole. about three miles below where the D!ttel
Root and Bannock trail crosses. At dayI'sh,
the fight was opened by The volunteers hripe 81
an Indian going after the horses nc c"alsS
was then made on tho camp aHo Son'' ''1ta
fighting took place i'll the next t%o hou!S' "u,
RHO which time large numbers Of the men anu
Indians were killed. The soldiers theu charged
Tho lodges, but we're repulsed. The Indians
them ATTEMPTED TO cut tho soldiers from high
wooded point, but the latter charged, beating
hack the Indiau advance from the point Which
thew held and at once fortified. tlg hitting con-
tinued all day, and was progressing ht'uily
when the courier Left at ii o'clock.
The fighting was desperate on both sides,
the fn|] force of Indians being 10 the hgnt.
Cant. Logan aud Lieut.. Bradley were killed.
Ge p Gi6bop, Capt. Williams and Licuts
Gool;doe. Eoslish aud Woodruff were wound
ed. Ger. Gibbon slightly. Lieut.. Bradley was
The frat man killed. The messenger says that
after they failed to capture the lodges the L.,
dams moved their camp of in the direction o.!
Rannock, Ali of the horses were captured, and
tho messenger had to come TO French's Gulch,
nearly sixty miles, 90 foot. Another messenger
was sent to Howard, Eho should have reached
them too day. The bowlzT had been lett tx
miles behind, and was ordered up at daylight;
During the fight they heard it discharged aud
then it was silent. a band OF lodIans soon
after appeared with number OF horses. ana II
ia believed all tho horses of the COMMAND were
captured.
When courier left, Gen. Gibboa thong BIT he
still had a hundred effective men, and believed
that nearly Gil of the Indians had WlthuraWn
from his front. The messenger thinks one DC,
hundred Indians we're killed. DR.. Ml;he!I Will
leave to day with an escort. General uiopon
particularly asks for ambulance wagons to come
after the escort, aud every available wagon Viii
20 toward from here and Butte. 1h!s Is one
of the hardest Indian fights, GU rccorc' ana
| Gen. Gibbons command made most gallant
DEER LODGE, August |.
To Gove7nor Potts:
We have all the men We want 10 escort The
| wagons. We are rushing out wagons, stores
ice, etc. Eighty or a hundred are Killed or
| wounded. -,
DEER DODGE, MONTANA, August II. Two
courers from Gen. Towards command say he
| was eighteen miles from Gibbons force and
would reach there early on the llth. No iur-
| Their particulars have been received from the
battlefield, excepting the report that G'Shon
camp and guns were captured.
HELENA, MONTANA, August IA courier
| from General Gibbon arrived at Deer Lodge,
| Montana, at $3.50 p. m. to day, with dates to
the llth. Gibbons supply train and camp
were not captured, as first reported. There
was no fighting after the first days battle on
the 9th. Gibbons losses are, killed, Captain
Logan, Lieuteuants Bradley and Bostwlrk aud
seventeen men aud five citizens. The wounded
are General Gibbon, Captain Williams, Lieu
tenants Coolidge, Woodruff and English, the
latter seriously besides thirty six men and O1r
citizens The Indians suffered severely, as iorty
| dead Indians were counted on about one. halt
of the battlefield. Howard had arrived and
| would pursue the Indians as coon as hIs COM
mand arrived. Gen. Gibjon would move Ia
Deer Lodge and take bis wounded TO Fort
Shaw as soon as medical aid and transportation
| arrived. The Indians had disappeared, IN
which direction not yet learned.
WASHINGTON, D. g., August l2.-Adjutan'
General Townsend TO- day received dispatch
| from Lieutenant General Sheridan coblrmatory
of the press account in regard to the fight Of
General Gibbon with the Nez Pcrces ludlans'
and announcing that Captain Logan and Lieu
tenant Bradley had been killed ln the engage
| ment. The dispatch also says that several OIL
GERS we're wounded, but the particularly, OF the
| fight had not been received by Gen. Sheridan.