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Show Colonel and daring the soldiers to come out in the open and fight. their were boasts---the former th at Brown with 80 making srman and Capt. whole nation the of t.he ride and the latter could through Sioux, .lrymen, he of Chief Red take the Cloud. scalp he would personall.y IOns . a par+y of wooosmen left the fort to go about five miles to timber in the construction wor-k, stationing a man atop a low ridge or knoll and give signals if they were e he could see both the workmen and t.he fort, T!1e Sioux attacked the woodsmen; the signal-man net ified the fort. ed two officers just mentioned, with a little more than 80 men, rode swiftly Te Indians secreted themselves along te sides of the ttack the redmen. and awaited them. No move was made until e the cavalrymen woul.d take, There were no xXX erman and Brown with their men were well within the "t.r-ap'", day ne use , survivors of the battl. e I Smith and Buford were later attacked. At a later time, a company of ners, threatened by tqe Indian, not far from Fort Phil Kearney, enclosed them es within a barricade made with teir wagon boxes ; and withstood a number of eks by the ndians. Being informed that reinfocements for the whitemen were the India.ns withdrew withdrew without decisive results. the from fort, ng orts C. L. lB6S, n the government'abandoned the construction of this cut-off road--- playing out, or it was thought the expense of main I have not learned; but this war wi th the Sioux is ing would be too great to have been the only one the United Sta.tes ever lost. her the gold mines were .. 1876, n gold-discovery another 2een \iashington made---this time within the Sioux and New York, came about, however, end shown the great territory Chief Red Cloud resources of the the Pat.omac River; and a big gun fired could see the splash of the shell when it hit the water a number of miles His remark wast.nat, it was long way to the Sioux country. When the second At 9S. ? taken to wa.s Before this ,urse, the wnites moved in. , one time he was stationed near dth the discovery of gold on the sioux lands, Red Cloud must have the futility d)f the Indians t cause, since he counselled peace; however Lzed, , 1is opinion was concurred with by Chief Sitting Bull and other chiefs. Ls came battle between General Custer and the Sioux ·:_s often referred to as .by t.he, Indians. Is this. accusation really true, Custer's corrmand was wiped out to the last man--one man did escape, making ensuing ie ssqcre of the w!1ite soldiers )ugh my trouh the Indian lines, and ran for he Ip, Tle Indians were within their own lands, Late. Reinforcements soon came, but secured to them with a guar-an government. Custer and his soldiers )f their rihts by treaty with te U. S. far within the Indian "domain", and within t!1eir best "hunting groundS, appar r for no other purpose than to force the redmen to allow the whites to carry II .ning operations with all its dangers to the Indians' game supply, and in to t!1eir very existence as a tribe. Has the United States ever carried on for a better r-eason than the Indians would condder they had? may remember, too, that at the time, the rights of Indians were greatly tttae and trampled upon. k'fuites could prosect for gold anyt'mere; Indians, nowhere", ven on their own treaty-secured lands. Indiah "societies, we maycall them r-e ns , I tnnk, were practically under sentence of death, and tre Indians were · iden to hold than. conidered itself practically forced to act Lvely ap:ainst the Sioux. General Shermans advice to President Grant in 1868 of 19 would get at the root of the matter with the Sioux but extermination >men end children, seemed true. Of course, the Indians were defeated in the The survivors of the broken up nation were :try offensive them. course now the U. S. government s , against - . |
