The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-05-23
SITTING BULL.

PREPARATIONS TO RESIST ANY MOVEMENT or
THE HOSTILE CHIEF-D1sposlTIoN OF THE
FORCES IN THE SIOUX COUNTRY.
WASHINGTON, May %, 1873.
Tho military authorities bavo received such nfor.
nation Of the probable intentions Of Sitting Bull and
hts allies to reoommenoe bost.iities tho coming sum.
mer, that orders have been Issued for such dispo
stion OF troops as Will give tho great Indian leader
more trouble In accomplishing hts plans than no
dreams Of In General Crooks command, tho De-
partment OF tho Platte, two columns have been
ordered to points north and west OF the Black Hills
where they will be enabled at very short notice TO
cooperate with the command OF General Milos on
the Yellowstone or General John II. Brooke, who is
comm nding tho district or Montana during General
Gibbons presence here.
CHANGES OF TROOPS.
General Wesley Merritt, who Is Colonel OF tho Fifth
cavalry, has been ordered from Fort David A. Russell
at Cheyenne, Wyoming, TO Fort Mckinney, In North
western Wyoming, west OF the Rosebud Valley to re-
ieve Captain Pollock, Ninth infantry, In command,
and five companies OF his regiment have boon ordered
there rs garrison and to form tho nucleus for strong
acouting parties in addition TO the two companies
oil The Fiiih cavalry. ono OF the Ninth ana three
OF tho Fourth infantry already there. The other
/, Bradley, Lieutenant Colonel Ninth infantry,
and will comprise 1ve COMPANIES OF the
from General Bradleys regiment rhis column has
been INSTRUCTED 10 establish n field camp some
point on the Belle Fourdle the head OF ia o
Lower Missouri, north and west oil Deadw will
also keep sending strong scouting parties through
country IA which sitting Buil has announced ne viii
mako his scene OF operations The establishment OF
these two strong commands IN the heart OF tho Sioux
strongholds, from which the Indians were uisiodgcd
by the severe nghting OF last year, operating
junction with the columns in Department OF pa
koa 10 the north. w II Is believed rfiect ually pre-
vent the raid which the Indians think they mako
on the Black Hills people.
DETAILS or TnB FORCES
The command oil General Merritt as foiiows:-
f9h Carairy-Company g. MAJOR Eu,tl Adam ,
Company d, Major Samuel s. sumner; Company r.
Captain George Il. Price; Company II, Captain J
Scott Payne Company X. Captain Albert y. Wood
OF The lG2i New YORK voluntccrsl; Company A, Cap
tain Calbralh i. RodR srs, aud Company Is, Captain
Robert II. Montgomery.
Fourth MISUNDERSTANDING Is. Captain Thomas y.
QUINN; Company Il, Lieutenant CDioDcl Charles J.
Won Hermann, and Company J, Colonel samuel l..
Ferris.
Ninth Infantry Company f, Captain Edwin Pol.
lock-
General Bradlcy's command will DO composed az
follows
THIRD CdcayH-Company A, Captain William Hsw.
ley; Company Is, Colonel George II. Ford; Company
ID, Colonel Guy v. Henry Company y, Colonel Alex.
andcr Moore, and Company X, Captain Gerald Rus
sell
Ninth Inftrniry Company -, Lieutenant Colonel
John d. Down; Company q, captain samuel Munson !;
Company ii, Major Andrew ). Burt, and Company 1,
Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Mcars.
Tho companies OF cavalry muster about sixty. and
those Oi infantry about iorty 1--WE effective mon each.
Tho post OF Fv-t Bridgcr, Wyoming, which was the
headquarters OF tho Fourth infantry, Colonel Frank
ln H. Flint, and OF Companies q anu X OF that req.
command is to DO sent 10 Fort Sander, Wyoming, 10
be held IN reserve Tor tho ncld Tho post OF camp
Stambaugh, wyoming. Is also broken up, ana It's gar
risoD, Company III, Fourth Infantry, goes also