Original sentence: Crook accompanied the column but did not play any command role.The plan was for all three columns to converge simultaneously on the Lakota hunting grounds and pin down the Indians between the approaching troops
Edited sentence: Crook accompanied the column but did not play any command role, his cavalry free to murder noncombatants, women and children.The plan was for all three columns to converge simultaneously on the Lakota hunting grounds, decimate herds of wild bison, and pin down the Indians between the approaching troops