Indian Rebellion.
Indian Rebellion.

BY TELEGRAPH.

Final Blow to Backbone of Indian Rebellion.

They Sue For Peace.

Gen. Sheridan Repels Charge of Col. Wynkoop.

Indian Rebellion.

    Chicago, Jan. 16.--Gen. Sheridan informs Gen. Sherman that the destruction of the Comanche vilage by Col. Evans, has given a final blow to the back-bone of the Indian rebellion. At midnight of the 31st of December, a delegation of the chief men of the Arrapahoes and Cheyennes, twenty-one in number, arrived at Fort Cobb, begging for peace; they report their tribes in mourning for their losses, their people starving, ponies dying, dogs all eaten up, no buffalo. We had forced them into canons on the eastern edge of Staked Plains, where there were neither buffalo or small game. They are in a bad fix, and surrender unconditionally. I acceded to their terms and will punish them justly. I can scarcely make an error in any punishment awarded, for all have blood upon their hands. In the same dispatch General Sheridan repels the charge of Colonel Wynkoop, that Black Kettle�s band were peacable Indians, and says the band were outside of their reservation, and some of Black Kettle�s young men were out committing depredations when the village was captured. Much plunder from trains and from murdered couriers was found in the village, and other indubitable evidence that the band had been engaged in murders and outrages upon the whites.


Source:

Unknown, "Indian Rebellion," The Daily Kansas State Journal, Lawrence, Kansas, Sunday Morning, 17 January 1869, Vol. IV, No. 155, p. 1, col. 4.

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