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BY TELEGRAPH.From Washington.Washington, Feb. 19.--The President, today, reported to the Senate, Gen. W. F. Baldy Smith to be Consul General at Havana and Ed. W. Wynkoop, agent for the Indians in New Mexico.
Source: Unknown, "By Telegraph, From Washington," The Daily Kansas State Journal, Lawrence, Kansas, Saturday Morning, 20 February 1869, Vol. IV, No. 184, p. 1, col. 3.
President Andrew Johnson may have submitted Ned's name to the Senate for this important new post, but politics, and President Johnson's "lame duck" status prevented him from getting it. He spent the next seven years in Stanhope, Pennsylvania operating a steel mill with his brother Col. John Estill Wynkoop, until the market collapsed in the mid-1870s and their company went into receivership. Ned didn't return to the West until 1876 when he was drawn to the Black Hills of the Dakota Territories by recent gold strikes. He arrived there shortly before the Custer Massacre at the Battle of the Little Big-Horn, and took charge of a volunteer group of soldiers called the Black Hills Rangers. Chris
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