The New York herald., 1879-08-06
NILES SCOUT.
Sitting Bull Likely TO Be
Starved Out.
THE BUFFALO HUNT BROKEN UP.
Full Refutation of the Charges
Against the General.
icy TELEGRAPH TO rnn nErAnp.l

bishAHCh ~ l AuBuSt D, 1879.
Lieutenant McClerland. gallant young cavalry
officer with General Miles. arrived from camp on
Rocky Creek. yesterday having left Miles on the 2sh
of July. He surprised to hear of the alarming
report that out from Washington and
smiled at the statement that Miles north Of tho
Missouri River to protect the navigation of that
stream. The officers all understood they over
there to fight Indians. and when they struck them
the 18th they charged them vigorously that
the rout did not terminate until the line
ing. Sitting Bull will be out of buffalo meat this
month. and there is some talk of his surrenderng.
Miles scouts securing the country with hope Of
keeping the buffalo south.
THE INDIANS PROMISE TO BECOME CANADIANS.
ST. PAUL. Mimi. August g. 1879.
General Terry. commanding department head
quarters here, has received despatch from General
Miles dated from a camp on Rock Greek on July %.
Major Walsh. of the Canadian mounted police.
companied by the Sioux chief Long Dog, entered the
camp and stated that Sitting Bulls whole camp Of
from five to eight thousand persons comprising
several hostile tribes had moved north to Swan
Lake. about eighty miles from the line, whore they
had determined to remain. The chief brought
assurances that the Indians would make perna-
nent residence Canadian soil. would abstain from
all hostile movements this side. return stolen
property and desist from hunting American buffalo
unless permitted to do so under supervision Of
United States officials.
GENERAL MILES ENvIABIE SUCCESS AS AN IN
DIAN FIGHTEE-THE CHARGE OF RECKLESS
NESS REFUTED-A THOROUGH ORGANIZER AND
CONSERVATIVE LEADEE-HIs ORDERS REGARD
ING THE PRESENT EXPEDITION.
BISMARCK. d. T.. July 81, 1879.
General Miles is willing to be abused but not to bo
msrepresented His Western friends propose that he
shall be neither abused nor misrepresented The
present business he is engaged in was none Of his
making. DR.. Bird agent at Poplar River Indian
Agency, officially represented to Secretary Schurz
and Commissioner Hayt that the hostile Sioux
trampling upon the rights Of the wards of the
ton and running down the buffalo upon their
vation. DR.. Bird is gray haired Methodist brother
from Mount Pleasant. Iowa. who agent be-
and not on account OF any known fit
ness. Being of physical courage
or tact the Ysnktonais found him easily
alarmed at the cry of Heap Sioux!" They gave
him frequent "scares," and worked up situation
that seemed to demand Cabinet attention. Upon Mr..
Schurz's showing the Secretary of War; through the
proper channel'-Sherman, Sheridan and Terry
ordered General Miles to organize expedition and
to move north Of tho Missouri Miles Instructions
called the removal of the hostiles from the
ervation and general in their nature. To
them would necessiate chase 10 the bound
ary line Miles distinctly understood that he to
fight il there any hostile Interference with the
progress of his scout He went up with the best
outfit that ever entered an Indian country. His com
mand supplied with everything that he asked
for. and the Bismarck quartermaster says he asked
anarter,naster's catalogue wcre manAractured for
him-tor example. twenty-five travoys. His force
not as large as he desired but was all that Gem
era Terry could mobilize from the garr.sons Of the
department..
A THOROUGH ORGANIZER.
As to General Miles reckessness there has moth
ing occurred in this campaign to sustain the charge
He has moved cautiously. with thorough knowl-
edge of the movements OF the enemy and the char
acter OF the country he passing through Miles
Is not q dangerous commander. There's nothing in
his history on the frontier give color to the
charge Quartermasters allege that he asks for
more than any other officer in the department. and
generally gets it. He calculates that supplies
more powerful than battalions II hc cannot have
force Commensurate with the demand, he will have
all that force requires for its comfort and complete
equipment. He remembers that horses must be
shod and forage must be provided He is quarter.
master well q general, and more the former
than the latter antil he is i'll the Of tho
enemy. He lays awake at night whom he is
organizing an expedition, as his staff officers
freely testify. ,, he is treess e, thinker; as
sephs escape from General Sturgis. General Gibbon
and General Howard there was an exciting time ut
Fort Keogh. Dur .ng the night he crossed his COM
mand over the Yellowstone aud ealloped away
toward the Bear Paw Mountains Had he been the
reckless commander that tho current press reports
assert he would have org to have despatched
courier to Bismarck with request to send a steamer
to the mouth of Musselshell with supplies That
little forethought gave him base of supplies and
saved his command Erroneous newspaper reports
and Miles have created the popular impress
sion that he Is dashing chance taking Indian
fighter. Miles himself regrets that i'm preston and
heartily dislikes the idea that he is Indian fighter.
He has ambition to be passed around as man
who glories in killing redskins and decorating his
b.lt with their scaps. He Is only ambitious to
be rated a successful general on small scale.
battling with interior numbers against the best
cavalrymen in the world as Sheridan characterzes
the Sioux. Miles was a business man who carried
his business education with him into the army. In
the creation of Fort keogh. the finest post in the
Northwest. Miles has been the master spirit. His
practical turn has made drives, planted rows OF
trees built sidewalks and constructed water works.
He took his own regiment-the Fifth iufantry-and
mounted il Indian ponies and disciplined 1t
methods peculiar to successful Indian warfare.
Miles is a disciplinaran, and his regiment is better
fitted to int Indians than any other in the service.
the only mounted regiment OF infantry. and tho
only whose horses can be handled satisfactorily
IN battle.
Miles success in the West is briefly sketched as
follows In 1874 he engaged the Cheyonnes. Com
aches and kiowas in Indian Territory and North
western Texas. and when he got through with them
Sheridan said in his Official report of the campaign
that It was the most successful Indian war ever
waged upon the American continent" After the
Custer massacre in 1876 Mes and his regiment were
ordered into the Yellowstone country. He met Sit
ting Bun on Cedar Creek and beat him. Miles
formed hollow square and fought the Indians
four sides. lie kept his forces moving in that shape
and gave the hostiles, outnumberng him throe to
one no opportunity to close In on him. Following
up that success he forced l.2o0 Minneconjous aat
Sans Ares to surrender. On Red Water Creek Cap
tain Baldwin. OF Miles regiment. encountered Sit
ting Bull and gave him his last drubbing before
crossing the Missouri aud taking refuge in the asylum
across the line In January. 1871 Miles whipped
Crazy Horse in the Wolf Mountains and forced him
"to tight no more, forever" in the language ot
Joseph In the spring Crazy Horses band, with the
exception OF Lame Deer. surrendered. Miles got
after his detachment and brought him in.
Then followed his capture of Joseph, and. 1919
his success in taking in the Bannocks, the lels
lowstone Park. IL Is rccklcssness Miles 10
the most reckless general in the army.
The reason why he IL In no danger now is found
i'll his conservatism When among Indians he de-
pioys so freely that there cannot be surprise or
trap laid for him. Acting upon the defensive and
moving between Sitting Bull and the buffalo. he
poets to both "stand him or ana cut of his sup
plies. With more men he could carry on an ohens
sivc campaign ana put end to the eternal intmi'
dation that must necessarily follow Sitting BuiPs
residence under the Dominion flag. Miles asks our
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