The march of the Montana Column
Subtitle: a prelude to the Custer disaster
By: edited by Edgar I. Stewart.
Contributors: Stewart, Edgar Irving, ed.
Series: The American exploration and travel series ;; 32
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1961
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Dakota Indians -- Wars, 1876; Crow Indians; Montana -- Description and travel
Description: "In the vast body of material dealing with Custer's 'last stand', the journal kept by young Lieutenant James H. Bradley of the Seventh Infantry is at once graphic, incisive, and of first-rate historical importance. It records in detail the major incidents of the march of the Montana Column, under command of Colonel John Gibbon, to participate in the Sioux campaign of 1876. Beginning on March 17, when five companies of the regiment left Fort Shaw, it traces the progress of the column and ends abruptly with the entry for June 26, when Gibbon's command camped on the site of present Crow Agency, Montana, amid abundant indications that Custer's Seventh Cavalry had met with disaster. A letter written by Bradley describing the finding of the bodies on the Custer battlefield on the Little Big Horn is appended to provide a fitting conclusion"--Jacket.
Notes: First published in Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana, v. 2 (1896) under title: The journal of James H. Bradley; the Sioux Campaign of 1876 under the command of General John Gibbon, preceded by a brief biography of Lieutenant Bradley.