Official Account of the Council
Between Hancock and the Cheyennes.
THE INDIAN WAR.
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Official Account of the Council Between Hancock and the Cheyennes--The Flight of the Latter from their Camp--General Custer in Pursuit, &c.
Washington, April 24, 1867.
From letters received at the Office of Indian Affairs from agents at Wynkoop and Leavenworth, dated Fort Larned, April 15, information is given that a council was held by General Hancock, near the fort, with some of the chiefs of the Cheyenne tribe, at which it is understood they expressed themselves in a friendly manner. General Hancock marched to Fort Dodge on the 13th last, and up the Pawnee Fork in the direction of a camp or village of about three hundred lodges of Cheyennes and Sioux. The approach of the command caused great anxiety among the squaws and children; and, when the military had advanced and halted within a mile of the Indians, it was found that the women and children had left the lodges; the warriors, one hundred or more, armed and apparently ready for a fight, remaining. Gen. Hancock stated to the chiefs that no harm was intended, and sent two of them after those who had fled. They returned, however, with the information that they had scattered and could not be found. Meanwhile the warriors began to leave. The village was surrounded by cavalry and the lodges were found to have been left, with their contents remaining in them. There also remained an old Sioux and a girl about eight years of age, who was supposed by some of the party to be an Indian, and, by others to be a white, or partly so. It was evident that she was neither a Sioux or Cheyenne, and had been badly outraged. Gen. Custer was sent in pursuit of the fleeing Indians. The fear is expressed that a general war will follow.
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Fight at Cimarone Landing near Fort Dodge--The First Blood of the War.
Junction City, April 24th, 1867.
The Evening Union of this city says: On the 19th inst., a squad of the 7th Cavalry, under Major Cooper, killed six Cheyenne Indians at Cimarone Landing, thirty miles west of Fort Dodge. This is the first blood spilt in Indian war of 1867. One of major Cooper's men was killed, and one was wounded.
Thirty-six horses belonging to the United States Express Company were run off by the Indians from Chalk Bluff station, on Smoky Hill, a few days ago.
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Twenty-three Indians Killed in Arizona.
St. Louis, April 24, 1867.
The Prescott, Arizona, Miner of January 12 says:--Fourteen members of Captain Hodges company of rangers surprised a camp of Indians about one hundred miles from Prescott, December 31, and killed twenty-three of them. One of the rangers was killed and three were wounded.
Source:
Unknown, "The Indian War," New York Herald, Thursday, 25 April 1867, Page 7, Col. ?.
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