The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-06-23
TERRITORIAL
Preparations Made By The Military sAushsr-
tiles TO Protect Oar Borders iron
Indian Raids

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The preparations made by the mill.
tary authorities for -tstanding OFF, any
incursions Of hostile Indians ON the
Dakota and Wyoming frontiers, are
probably as complete as it is possible to
make them.
THE LEADER has already spoken Of
the several columns that have taken
the field under Gen. Luther p. Brad
ley and Gen. Wesley Merritt, respec-
lively, in the Little Missouri river and
the Powder river countries. The third
column takes the field under Gen. s.
ID. Sturgis, in Gen. Terry's depart
ment. The latter officer has forwarded
to Gen. Sheridan a copy of the instruc-
lions to Gen. Sturgis, of the Seventh
Cavalry, in reference to establishing
and occupying a summer camp near
Bear Butte, in Dakota, on the north
eastern rim Of the Black Hills country.
The officers to take the field are the
colonel, the lieutenant colonel, two
majors and ten companies Of the Sew
enth Cavalry. The command under
Gen. Sturgis will be composed Of these
troops, and also of four companies of
the First Infantry and two companies
Of the Eleventh Infantry, that have
already been detailed. From this
camp the supplies for the entire COM
mand will be drawn, and upon 1t, as a
base, will the operations of the cavalry
of Gen. Sturgis' command depend.
Gen. Terry recommends that Gen.
Sturgis' headquarters be established at
this camp. Supplies for the camp will
be drawn from Fort Abraham Lincoln.
1t is left to the discretion of Gen.
Sturgis to leave at Fort Lincoln two
companies Of the Seventh Cavalry of
his command until the Cheyenne pris-
oners now there, shall be removed, and
these troops to follow the Bear Butte
column as o o as possible.
Gen. Terry advises that the cavalry
be disposed into scouting parties of such
size as the circumstances may render
most advantageous, and with them to
establish a thorough system of recon-
~noissance from the camp at Bear Butte
in all directions-north, south, east and
northwest. On the northwest it will be
unnecessary to extend the reconnois-
sance further than to connect them
with those of the troops operating from
a camp which has been established by
Gen. Crook, of the Department of the
Platte, under the instructions of Lieut.
Gen. Sheridan, in the neighborhood Of
the Big Bend of the Little Missouri
river, about eighty miles northwest Of
Deadwood. To the north it is recon-
mended that reconnoissances be we'll
pushed, and especially into the region
about Slim Buttes, for that is believed
to be a favorite rendezvous for hostile
Sioux. Gen. Terry states. that under
the instructions of Gen. Sheridan, Gen.
Crook has established the camp on the
Little Missouri, at Big Bend, already
referred to, and the department COM
mander directs Gen. Miles to keep the
country southeast of Fort Keogh thor
oughly secuted by his troops, with in
structions to connect their operations
with Gen. Bradley's expedition. which
will make a summer camp on the Little
Missouri. 4
The military are intending to make it
hot for any hostile bands Of Indians
that may find their way to the Yellow
stone or south Of that river. The
Black Hills country is to be thoroughly
protected from the four points named,
that is, from the Powder River, the
Little Missouri, Bear Butte, and from
Fort Keogh, and the first Indian that
gets there will climb a tree sure.