Show THE IND inn INDIAN IAU IA ian U WAR warl y tn TERRYS S CAMP near e ar glen gien glendive dive dime creek i september 2nd 1876 thero there is no doubt but that the want of success of the present campaign has been caused in great part by the absence of a frank cooperation among tho the higher officers it is openly stated that rivalries and jealousies have in in great part contributed to tho the want of success and have bave beem been directly the cause of the little big horn massacre it would be well if Con congress gress grees would investigate the whole matter te r some sonie curious and important light would be thrown oli tho the events of the campaign and the responsibility of the gros gross mismanagement and blundering that has marked the operations from the beginning to the pre ppe present seit sert day would gould be fixed on tho the proper parties the campaign so far ra general terrys column is considered is generally regarded among the them officers as at ah an end and all hope of achieving anything this year is over it is needless to say that the reports published in some sonie of the eastern papers of a great greit battle between terrys column and the indians is wholly y unfounded and we have not seen half a dozen hostile indians since we left camp at the mouth of the rosebud three weeks ago when major reno beno went on his last scout he be was furnished with positive orders not to to engage the indians in a P nase ease case ase he hes bes should bould discover their trail but to ie leport p ort immediately to ta general terry if we fall jail to meet with the indiana by the time we strike the tile little missouri the twenty second regiment will be sent back to td e river in order to enable them to build their thein quarters beform before the hehr behr rival of the tho cold told weather the tho montana troops will also be sent iway away SQ that they may be under shelter ho for abe winter they are adly sadly in need of rest lest and food their cavalry horses horbes are in a very poor condition W Y yi herad TERRYS came CAMP near Glend lue ue creek sept general crook reports having 0 encountered n severe bevere weather T there be re is iff a great deal of amon his hig troops and he will be compelled com eom to come in with sick men this is anat a tia jia tural uial consequence of the scandalous manner in which the tho troops ate sip are fed in the field and of the ther fallz policy which compel compels them to mareb march mar without shelter tents or cook cooking ing utensils men cannot live for fon six months on hard tack fat pork and bad coffee and remain in good health bergh ought to be sent after crook and the tiie commissary department I 1 ROCHESTER nr Y sept letl 1876 william P F cody buffalo bill 11 telegraphs telegraphy to his wife here that ile yie he is en route home ho he say his services ices are no longer needed as the indians are tired of fighting and are anxious for peace on any terms TERRYS CAMP near mouth of powder river biver aug 1876 the health of the troops has suf fefee sev severely erdly since the union of terrys and crooks column sowing in part fo to the severity of the wea ther but chiefly to the inauguration of a theatrical campaign attributed to the influence and advice adylee of gen crook this distinguished indian fighter has a a theory that if we want to fight indians we must jive live like indians he ire does not permit his soldiers to carry their shelter tent tens which aro are the most useful and important part of their thein equipment and in order to cap the climax of absurdity he campp compels is the men of his command to leave their cooking utensils behind except one small email tin cup the result of this patent humbug campaigning the tho bol soi soldiers dlen dien exposed to thiet the rapid atmospheric changes of this bythe clini climate vite and unable to tb cook properly the miserably insufficient food supplied to them by a generous gene roua government arm are rendered incapable of supporting the fatigues of an indian campaign in these deserts gen terry unfortunately allowed crook to influence him on this point and issued similar order orders sto to his column fortunately the old indian campaigners found means meant to partially evade the ill III con bider FIder bd order much to the satisfaction is of the good natured general who desirous of showing a good example left his tent equipage at the rosebud with the train an and dasa as a result enjoyed sleeping in teg tem terrestrial rains for six nights in the future operations this thi 8 absurd order will be qu quietly betly disi disregarded regarded and general and jand soldiers abandoning theatrical campaigning will sleep under canvas and cook their food convinced that sound health and a well ordered stomach are no obstacles to the rapid marching of an army if the generals showed more common sense and went less after sensational effects tile the campaign would have alave been far more successful spi only that crook hap bap ceded to ti meet meef general terry he would loag since babp been compelled tp to turn back to goose creek where he left lefft his wagon train in accordance with the clever system of campaigning adopted on the plains which resembles no tb il much as a chinese stage battle batti where the combatants are constantly rushi rushing dg in an excited manner after invisible enemies they never seem to io catch but who now and then mana manage manae 0 e to catch the pursuers to illustrate the system it is only bec hec necessary essary to suppose that general crook left lef t goose creek with twenty days rations this would enable him to march in pursuit of the indians for ten days at the end of that time crook would have been compelled to march ten days back in order not to die of starvation for this country is absolutely incapable of furnishing food to an armyon army of white men having reached his supply train and re fitted th the e general would have to march ten days to reach teach the point from which he first retreated having thus lost twenty days tired out his hi men and horses accomplished noth nothing ing Jug and given the indians twenty days te to rest themselves and graze their ponies it requires no special mill military edue education atlon to know that a cam aiga conducted on such buch principles is little c more than a farce even if the general G does sleep without a tent and grows fat conj hard tack and alkali water that a man possesses an exceptional constitution and an r strich like stomach does not constitute hm him a agrest great general and the mere fact that soldiers leep in the rain and get dysentery and rheumatism will not make them better indian fighters the sooner this thes sensational sat ional campaigning is put an end to the better it will be for the health of the army and the purse of the nation if we cannot fight indians ids as ds civilized men let us adopt the essentials of indian warfare fare p ni net A the theatrical effects mere ly 34 if it is nee necessary essig to take away the soldiers tent why U abot ot take away his overcoat and blanket which are less useful and give him merely a breechclout breech clout and war paint but bat at the bamo samo time give him two or three ponies to ride give him fresh meat and game to eat but taut above all discharge the indian india c chiefs 1 s and give the tho command to real ea savages viges bes who will not spend their timo time marching up hill and then down again agali but will establish their supply j y camps or daiches dashes where it is p possible possible to pick up conveniently while tho the chiefs go after their enemies with real and not simulated war wat whoops new york herald 1 |