The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-08-18
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Tie following items OF military news
| cleaned from the Omaha press will be
of interest:
The probability of further changes in
the department of the Platte was hint
ed at in the Bee some weeks ago. That
probability has now been changed into
a certainty by the announcement that
Col. Ludlngton is to be transferred
from his present post, and to take sta
tion after October first at Fort Leaven-
worth, Kansas, with the department OF
the Missouri. The regret which will
everywhere be felt over Col. Luding-
toms removal from Omaha, will not be
tempered by the fact that Major j.. ".
Furey will at the same time leave u
city and take station at Baltimore.
Gen. 6. B. Dandy, now quartermaster
at st. LOUIS, will probably be assigned
to the position vacated by Major Lud-
lngton. Major Furey's successor has
not yet been announced.
A Washington paper states that Gen.
Howard is making strong efforts to be
transferred to the department of the
Columbia, instead of the department of
the Platte, but that there Is no proba-
bility of his success in that direction.
Gen. Howard will be a great acquisi-
ton to the Young Mems Christian
association, of any locality to which he
may be ordered.
Tuesday afternoon, on the train from
the west, came company K, 4th United
States infantry, from Fort Laramie,
about thirty men, under Capt. Neide
and Lieut.. Brown, and proceeded to
their new quarters at Fort Omaha.
An order of great Importance to
Omaha has just been issued by Adju-
tant General Drum, which creates FIVE
new light batteries of artillery, and or
ders battery d. of the 9th artillery,
with three officers, sixty-fve men, and
four pieces of ordnance to Fort Oma-
ha, Neb.
As many of u people are acquaint-
ed with the Sd cavalry, which was or
dered from this department TO Arizona
at the opening of the Apache outbreak,
the following complimentary order of
Gen. Wilcox will doubtless prove of in
terest:
HD'Qs DEPT. OF ARIZONA,
WHIPPLE BARRACKS, PREsCoTT,
July 81, 1881.
General Orders No. 81.
The department commander is happy
to another success of our
gallant troops against the Apaches On
the 18th inst. Capt. A. II. Chaffee, 9Th
cavalry, came up with N~an-tia-tish and
his whole band of desperate renegade
scouts and released Cibicu prisoners.
The engagement took place on Big
Dry Wash, misnamed "Chevelon's
Fork" in the dispatches; it lasted until
nightfall, resulting in the killing of 16
warriors, whose bodies we're found, and
the capture of the hostile camp, sad
dies, and reserved ammunition $500
metallic cartridges, calibre 45), over
100 horses and mules Including those
killed), and six squaws and children.
Toe much praise cannot be accorded
Capt. Chaffee and his Immediate COM
mand, troop L, I'd cavalry, and compa-
ny E, Indian scouts; Lieut.. Morgan, Sd
cavalry, commanding; and scarcely less
to Major A. W. Evans, Sd cavalry, and
his troops, who came up from a remote
post in good time, and fought with
equal bravery; Major Evans himself
generously waving the management of
the fight to his junior in rank, Captain
and Brevet-Ma:or Chaffee.
Our casualties consisted of two Off
GERS, Lieuts. Morgan and Converse, Sd
cavalry, wounded; one enlisted man
and one Indian scout wounded.
The lessons taught by this fight, the
necessity of greater precaution to pre-
vent Indians from obtaining arms and
ammunition; second, the value of en-
ergetic and persistent pursuit, however
remote and hopeless it may seem at
first; third, the importance of trailing
and attacking the hostiles even with
inferior numbers, and holding on to
them until other troops arrive on the
ground.
By order of Brevet-Major General
wilcox. ~ l.. HASKELL,