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The Commanders

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by Robert M. Utley


  Baldwin, Frank D., Papers, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

  Lawton, Henry W., Papers, U.S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.

  Marino, Carl W. “General Alfred Howe Terry: Soldier from Connecticut.” Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 1968.

  Miles, Nelson A., Papers, U.S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.

  Papers of the Order of the Indian Wars, U.S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.

  Sheridan, Philip H., Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

  Sherman, William T., Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

  Government Documents

  National Archives. RG 94, Office of the Adjutant General Letters Received (Main Series), 1871–1880, File 4163 AGO 1876 (Sioux War Papers), M666.

  . RG 94, Office of the Adjutant General, Letters Received (Main Series), 1881–89, 1066 AGO 1883.

  . RG 393, Records of U.S. Army Continental Commands, Special Files, Military Division of the Missouri, M1495.

  Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, ser. 1, vol. 13; vol. 22, pts. 1, 2; vol. 34, pt. 2; vol. 44, pt. 1; vol. 48, pts. 1, 2. Washington, D.C.: GPO.

  U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Annual Reports. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1866–90.

  U.S. House Ex. Doc. No. 88, 39th Cong, 2nd sess. 1866. Commissioners to Indian Tribes.

  U.S. House Ex. Doc. No. 97, 40th Cong., 2nd sess. 1867. Report of Indian Peace Commissioners.

  U.S. House Ex. Doc. No. 184, 44th Cong., 1st sess., vol. 17, 1876. Expedition against the Sioux Indians.

  U.S. House Misc. Docs. No. 56, 45th Cong., 2nd sess., 1877, Reorganization of the Army.

  U.S. House Report No. 384, 43rd Cong., 1st sess., 1874. Reduction of the Military Establishment, Jan. 17, 1874.

  U.S. Secretary of War. Annual Reports, Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1866–90.

  U.S. Senate Ex. Doc. No. 13, 40th Cong., 1st sess., 1867. Indian Hostilities.

  U.S. Senate Ex. Doc. No. 7, 40th Cong., 1st sess., 1867. Expeditions against the Indians.

  U.S. Senate Ex. Doc. No. 89, 41st Cong., 2nd sess., 1870. Encroachments on Indians in Wyoming.

  U.S. Statutes at Large. Vols. 14–18. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1874–75.

  Articles and Periodicals

  Army and Navy Journal 9 (August 8, 1871); 9 (October 7, 1871); 9 (May 25, 1872); 14 (May 12, 1877); 14 (June 16, 1877), 15 (September 8, 1877).

  Bloom, Lansing B. “Bourke on the Southwest.” New Mexico Historical Review 9 (1934): 33–77, 159–83, 273–89, 375–437.

  Braden, Charles. “The Yellowstone Expedition of 1873.” Journal of the U.S. Cavalry Association 16 (1905): 218–41.

  Crook, George. “The Apache Problem.” Journal of the Military Service Institution 7, no. 27 (October 1886): 257–69.

  Fite, Gilbert C. “The United States Army and Relief to Pioneer Settlers, 1874–1875.” Journal of the West 6 (1967): 99–107.

  Garfield, James A. “The Army of the United States.” North American Review 136 (1878): 445–48.

  Hughes, Col. Robert P. “The Campaign against the Sioux in 1876.” Journal of the Military Institution of the United States 18 (January 1896): 1–44.

  Opler, Morris E. “A Chiricahua Apache’s Account of the Geronimo Campaign of 1886.” New Mexico Historical Review 13 (October 1938): 371–73.

  Porter, Kenneth W. “The Seminole-Negro Indian Scouts, 1870–1881.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 55 (1951–52): 358–77.

  Utley, Robert M. “Border Showdown.” MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History 23 (Spring 2011): 98–104.

  . “The Red River War: Last Uprising in the Texas Panhandle.” MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History 20 (Autumn 2007): 74–83.

  Books

  Bailey, John W. Pacifying the Plains: General Alfred Terry and the Decline of the Sioux, 1866–1880. Westport Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1970.

  Bourke, John G. On the Border with Crook. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1891.

  Carpenter, John A. Sword and Olive Branch: Oliver Otis Howard (1964). New York: Fordham University Press, 1999.

  Carter, R. G. On the Border with Mackenzie: or, Winning West Texas from the Comanches. New York: Antiquarian Press, 1961.

  Cozzens, Peter. General John Pope: A Life for the Nation. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.

  Cresap, Bernarr. Appomattox Commander: The Story of General E. O. C. Ord. San Diego: A. S. Barnes, 1981.

  DeMontravel, Peter R. A Hero to His Fighting Men: Nelson A. Miles, 1839–1925. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1998.

  Dobak, William A., and Thomas D. Phillips. The Black Regulars, 1866–1898. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001.

  Ellis, Richard N. General Pope and U.S. Indian Policy. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1970.

  Fry, James B. The History and Legal Effect of Brevets in the Armies of Great Britain and the United States. New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1877.

  Gibson, A. M. The Kickapoos: Lords of the Middle Border. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1964.

  Grant, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant. New York: Century, 1885.

  Greene, Jerome A. American Carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014.

  . Nez Perce Summer, 1877: The U.S. Army and the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis. Helena: Montana Historical Society Press, 2000.

  . Yellowstone Command: Colonel Nelson A. Miles and the Great Sioux War, 1876–1877. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991. Reprinted, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006.

  Hutton, Paul Andrew. Phil Sheridan and His Army. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985.

  Koury, Michael J., ed. The Field Diary of General Alfred H. Terry: The Yellowstone Expedition—1876. Bellevue, Nebr.: Old Army Press, 1970.

  Kraft, Louis. Gatewood and Geronimo. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000.

  Magid, Paul, George Crook: From the Redwoods to Appomattox. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011.

  . The Gray Fox: George Crook and the Indian Wars. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015.

  McCaslin, Richard B. The Last Stronghold: The Campaign for Fort Fisher. Abilene Tex.: McWhiney Foundation Press, 2003.

  Miles, Nelson A. Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles (1896). Reprint, New York: Da Capo, 1969.

  Serving the Republic: Memoirs of the Civil and Military Life of Nelson A. Miles, Lieutenant General, United States Army. New York: Harper & Bros., 1911.

  Richardson, James D., comp. A Compilation of Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789–1897. 10 vols. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1897.

  Robinson, Charles M., III. General Crook and the Western Frontier. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001.

  Schmitt, Martin F., ed. General George Crook: His Autobiography. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1946.

  Taylor, Joe F., ed. The Indian Campaign on the Staked Plains, 1874–1875: Military Correspondence from War Department Adjutant General’s Office, File 2815–1874. Canyon, Tex.: Panhandle-Plains Historical Society, 1962.

  Utley, Robert M. Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier. 1988. Revised ed., Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001.

  . Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian, 1866–1891. New York: Macmillan, 1973.

  . Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848–1865. New York: Macmillan, 1967.

  . Geronimo. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.

  . The Indian Frontier, 1846–1890. 1984. Revised ed., Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003.

  . The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull. New York: Henry Holt, 1993.

  . The Last Days of the Sioux Nation (1963). 2nd ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.

  Utley, Robert M., ed. An Army Doctor on the West
ern Frontier: Journals and Letters of John Vance Lauderdale, 1864–1890. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2014.

  Wallace, Ernest, ed. Ranald S. Mackenzie’s Official Correspondence Relating to Texas, 1871–1875. 2 vols. Lubbock: West Texas Museum Association, 1967.

  Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders (1964). Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999.

  Wood, Leonard. Chasing Geronimo: The Journal of Leonard Wood, May–September 1886. Edited by Jack C. Lane. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1970.

  Wooster, Robert. Nelson A. Miles and the Twilight of the Frontier Army. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993.

  INDEX

  Page numbers refer to the print edition but are hyperlinked to the appropriate location in the e-book.

  Abert, John J., 151–52

  Achumawi Indians, 46

  adjutant general, 6, 47

  Adjutant General’s Department, 5, 132, 173

  Adobe Walls, Battle of, 98, 171

  Alabama, 40, 64, 117, 166

  Alaska, 6, 77, 113, 206

  Alcatraz Prison, 65

  Alger, Russell, 124

  Alexandrovich, Alexei, 139

  Allison, William B., 51, 191

  Allison Commission, 51, 191

  Alton, Ill., 153

  Amelia Courthouse, Va., 137

  American West, 3, 6, 10, 96, 101, 112, 202, 203, 211

  Andrew, John A., 92

  Antietam, Battle of, 40, 69–70, 93, 94

  Apache Indians, 46–50, 54, 60, 63, 65, 75, 87, 139, 148, 174, 206, 211

  Apache Pass, Ariz., 47

  Apache scouts, 48, 61–63, 113–14, 116–17, 204

  Appomattox Courthouse, Va., 3, 44, 95, 138, 148

  Appomattox River, 44, 95, 135, 136, 137, 138, 183

  Arapaho Indians, 26, 56, 98, 165, 166, 167

  Arikara Fork of Republican River, 26

  Arizona, 33, 47–50, 60, 61, 64, 75, 88, 113, 116, 117, 139, 148, 174

  Arkansas, 138

  Arkansas River, 165, 171

  Army Act of 1866, 3, 4, 95, 138

  Army and Navy Journal, 7, 15, 107

  Army of Northern Virginia, 95

  Army of the Cumberland, 74

  Army of the James, 135, 136, 137, 138, 148, 183, 184

  Army of the Mississippi, 154–55

  Army of the Ohio, 73

  Army of the Potomac, 39, 43, 69, 70, 71, 92, 94, 157, 159, 183

  Army of the Shenandoah, 41–43

  Army of the Tennessee, 72, 73, 133

  Army of Virginia, 19, 156

  Arthur, Chester, 87, 112, 174

  Atlanta, Ga., 72–73, 180, 188

  Augur, Christopher C., 17–33, 98, 100, 113, 141, 171, 187, 208, 209, 210, 211; Civil War career, 18–20; commands Department of Texas, 27–33, 141; commands Department of the Platte, 20–27, 139; described, 17; death, 33; evaluated, 208–9; and Mackenzie Mexican raid, 29–31; on Peace Commission of 1867–68, 22–25; prewar service, 17–18; promoted brigadier general, Regular Army, 18; and Red River War, 31–32, 209; and Republican River Expedition, 25–26; retirement, 33; in siege of Port Hudson, 19–20; on Sioux attitudes, 25; and Sweetwater mines, 26

  Baldwin, Frank D., 99, 100–101, 102, 104, 121, 123

  Baltimore, Md., 44

  Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 43

  Banks, Nathaniel P., 19, 135, 156

  Bannock Indians, 45, 56, 86, 89, 207

  Barlow, Francis, 92, 93, 94, 95

  Bear Paw, Battle of, 85, 109, 110, 200

  Beaufort, N.C., 179, 180, 183

  Beauregard, P. G. T., 179, 183, 184

  Beaver Creek, 111

  Belknap, William W., 6, 29, 75, 78, 172, 192

  Bellaire, Ohio, 136

  Belle Fourche River, 55

  Benecia Barracks, Calif., 129

  Benteen, Frederick W., 196

  Bermuda Hundred, Va., 183, 184

  Big Foot, 120–21

  Big Hole, Battle of, 82

  Big Hole River, 82

  Big Horn and Yellowstone Expedition, 57

  Big Horn Mountain Mining and Exploring Expedition, 25–26

  Bighorn Mountains, 20, 26, 27, 54, 56, 58, 106

  Bighorn River, 195

  Big Meadows, Battle of, 18

  Big Mound, Battle of, 162

  Bismarck, Dak. Terr., 189

  Bitterroot Mountains, 81, 207

  Bitterroot Valley, 82, 83

  Black Hills, 26, 50–51, 55, 188, 189, 191, 198

  Black Hills Expedition of 1874, 189–90

  black soldiers, 4, 10, 86–87, 141

  Blackwater River, Battle of, 153

  Boston, Mass., 91, 129

  Bowdoin College (Me.), 69

  Bozeman, Mont., 186

  Bozeman Trail, 22–23, 24, 186

  Bradley, James H., 196

  Bragg, Braxton, 40, 185

  brevet system, 4

  Brisbin, James, 192, 195

  British Columbia, 113

  Brooke, John R., 118, 119, 120, 122

  Brown, John, 132

  Brown, William H.

  Brule Sioux, 24

  Buchanan, James, 153

  Buchanan, Robert C., 18, 130

  Buell, George P., 98

  Buena Vista, Battle of, 152

  Buffalo Bill (William F. Cody), 119, 139

  Bullis, John L., 142, 144

  Bull Run, Battle of, 69, 92, 178–79.

  Burlington, Vt., 88, 89

  Burnside, Ambrose, 70, 71, 94

  Butler, Benjamin F., 19, 135, 136, 183, 184

  Cairo, Ill., 155

  Caldwell, John C., 92

  California, 6, 36, 45, 129, 130, 132, 139

  Camas Meadows, Ida., 83

  Camas Prairie, Mont., 80

  Camp Apache, Ariz., 47–48, 60

  Camp Brown, Wyo., 26

  Camp Robinson, Nebr., 57, 58

  Camp Sheridan, Nebr., 57

  Camp Stambaugh, Wyo., 26

  Camp Supply, Ind. Terr., 101

  Camp Verde, Ariz., 48

  Canada, 38, 57, 81, 84, 85, 106, 107, 109, 110, 198, 199, 200, 207

  Canadian River, 169

  Canby, Edward R. S., 46

  Cañon de los Embudos, Mexico, 63

  Canyon Creek, Battle of, 84

  Cape Fear River, 184, 185

  Carr, Eugene A., 26, 208

  Carrington, Henry B., 22

  Carter, Robert, 29

  Cascade Mountains, 37

  Cedar Creek, Battle of, 42–43

  Cedar Mountain, 157

  Cedar Mountain, Battle of, 19

  Centreville, Va., 158

  Chancellorsville, Battle of, 70, 73, 86, 93, 123

  Charles, Hipólito, 142

  Charleston, S.C., 179, 181, 182, 183

  Charleston Harbor, 181

  Chattanooga, Tenn., 40, 71, 72

  Cheteco River, 130

  Cheyenne, Wyo., 27

  Cheyenne-Arapaho Reservation, 28, 31–32, 98, 167

  Cheyenne Indians, 23, 24, 25, 26, 31–32, 50, 56, 54, 58, 88, 98, 99, 100, 101, 106, 165, 167, 171, 197, 208

  Chicago, Ill., 6, 25, 50, 64, 118, 119, 123, 167, 173, 174, 187, 188, 189, 192, 200

  Chickamauga, Battle of, 40, 41

  Chief Joseph, 77–78, 80, 81, 85, 109

  Chihuahua, 61–63

  Chiricahua Apache Indians, 47, 48, 61, 64, 65, 75, 113, 114, 115, 117

  Chiricahua Mountains, 47

  Chivington, John M., 165

  Cincinnati, Ohio, 152, 166, 173

  City Point, Va., 163

  Civil War, 3, 10, 11, 13, 18, 26, 32, 39, 47, 56, 63, 67, 69, 85, 89, 91, 96, 99, 112, 123, 132, 141, 148, 152, 166, 175, 192, 201, 202, 203, 206, 209

  Clark’s Fork of the Yellowstone River

  Clearwater, Battle of, 81, 83, 207

  Cleveland, Grover, 64, 113, 116, 123, 174

  Coahuila, 142

  Coast Survey, 127, 129

  Cochise, 47, 48
, 61, 75

  Cody, William F., 119, 139

  Cold Harbor, Battle of, 93

  Colorado, 6, 26, 165, 167, 174

  Columbia River, 38, 129

  Columbus, Ky., 154

  Colville Indian Reservation, 85

  Colyer, Vincent, 48, 49, 75

  Comanche Indians, 27, 28, 32, 98, 99, 100, 166, 169, 171, 208

  Commerce, Mo., 154

  Confederate Army, 40, 41, 70, 72, 132

  Connor, Patrick E., 165–66

  Cooke, Philip St. George, 20–21

  Corinth, Miss., 133, 155, 156

  Corps of Engineers, 5

  Corps of Topographical Engineers, 151–52

  Cox, Jacob D., 185

  Crater, Battle of the, 94

  Crawford, Emmet, 62

  Crazy Horse, 50, 55, 56, 57–58, 103, 104, 105, 106, 110, 188, 199

  Crook, George, 11, 33, 58–60, 75, 81, 83, 86, 88, 106, 108, 112, 113, 115, 116, 117, 139, 118, 141, 175, 191, 199, 208, 210, 211; and Apache scouts, 62–63, 113–14; in Appomattox campaign, 44; and Battle of Powder River, 52–53, 101; campaigns in Pacific Northwest, 45–47, 139; captured, 43; Civil War service, 39–45; conflict with Miles, 113; on dealing with Indians, 38, 60; death, 64; described, 35–36; evaluated, 64–66, 204; field strategy, 47, 49, 61, 65, 203; first Arizona tour, 47–50; as game hunter, 37; and memo of agreement, 61–62; Northern Plains service, 50–60, 102, 105–6, 198; prewar service, 36–39; promoted brigadier, Regular Army, 50; promoted brigadier general, 40; promoted major general, 42; replaced by Miles, 63; resentment of Sheridan, 42–43, 57, 204–5, 206; in Shenandoah campaign, 41–43; and Sierra Madre campaigns, 61–63; and Sioux campaign of 1876, 52–58, 206; in Tonto Basin Campaign, 48–50; wounded, 37–38, 39

  Crow Indians, 53–54, 81, 84, 104–5, 196, 204, 211

  Cuba, 124

  Culpepper, Va., 157

  Cumberland, Md., 43, 127

  Curtis, Samuel R., 165

  Cushing, Caleb, 17

  Custer, George A., 10, 51–52, 54, 98, 101, 111, 138, 139, 189, 191, 208; and Little Bighorn, 195–97; and Sioux campaign of 1876, 192–96, 206

  Dahlgren, John A., 181

  Dailey, Mary, 43, 44

  Dakota, 6, 159, 161, 165, 186

  Dakota Column, 192

  Darlington, Ind Terr., 28

  Davidson, John W., 32, 98

  Davis, Britton, 62

  Davis, Jefferson, 95, 96

  Dead Buffalo Lake, Battle of, 162

  Deep Bottom, Battle of, 94

  Delaware Indians, 99

  Department of Arizona, 6, 46, 48, 60, 75, 87, 113, 206

  Department of Arkansas, 138

 

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