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Indian Incendiarism and Murder-- Scalping and Burning-- General Custer's Command Divided and Pursuing.
MY EARLY TRAVELSANDADVENTURESINAMERICA AND ASIABYHENRY M. STANLEY, D.C.L.AUTHOR OF "IN DARKEST AFRICA," ETC., ETC.VOLUME I.NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1905Copyright, 1895, byCHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
THE CAXTON PRESS 40 During Two Indian Campaigns
Custer's Command divided and pursuing.
DESERTED CHEYENNE VILLAGE, THIRTY MILES FROM April 18th, 1867. DESPATCHES received last night at headquarters from General Custer announce that the fugitive Indians had burned three stations on the Smoky Hill route, and killed three white men, and scalped and burnt them. Orders have been sent to each post, both on the Santa F� and Smoky Hill routes, warning all posts to be on the alert, as the Indians had broken out at last, and intended to be true to the threats they uttered during the winter. This outbreak is attributed to the Sioux, who encamped with the Cheyennes in this village. General Custer has divided his command, taking five companies of cavalry himself to pursue the main body of Cheyennes and Sioux, while three companies of cavalry have been sent after that particular band which committed the raid, and is supposed to belong to those Sioux who were in the massacre lately at Phil Kearney. We strike out for Fort Dodge to-morrow.
Source: Stanley, Henry M., D.C.L., My Early Travels and Adventures in America and Asia, Vol. 1, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905, p. 40.
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