Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890

by Cozzens, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780811700191
• ISBN10: 0811700194
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Stackpole Books

Summary

This is the third in a planned five-volume series that will tell the saga of the military struggle for the American West in the words of the soldiers, non-combatants, and Native Americans who shaped it. Volume III offers as complete a selection of outstanding original accounts pertaining to the struggle for the Southern Plains and Texas as may be gathered under one cover. It contains accounts from such notable military participants as George Armstrong Custer, Nelson A. Miles, Wesley Merritt, and Frederick W. Benteen.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations and Maps	xi
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction	xvii
PART ONE: Hancock's War and the Medicine Lodge Treaty, 1865--67
The Smoky Hill Route	2	(10)
Julian R. Fitch
Isaac E. Eaton
11th Indiana Cavalry in Kansas in 1865	12	(6)
Frank Doster
The Indians	18	(11)
Winfield S. Hancock
Across the Plains with General Hancock	29	(4)
James W. Dixon
A Summer on the Plains	33	(20)
Theodore R. Davis
The 18th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, and Some Incidents Connected with Its Service on the Plains	53	(4)
Henderson L. Burgess
The Battle on Beaver Creek	57	(10)
George B. Jenness
``Bart'' Letter from Fort Dodge	67	(2)
The Medicine Lodge Treaty, Sixty Years Ago	69	(5)
Edward S. Godfrey
The Medicine Lodge Peace Council	74	(54)
Henry Morton Stanley
PART TWO: The Battle of Beecher Island, 1868
A Frontier Fight	128	(27)
George A. Forsyth
Withstood the Siege	155	(14)
Fletcher Vilott
Reminiscences of a Plainsman	169	(7)
Allison J. Pliley
The Story of the Beecher Island Battle	176	(8)
Eli Zigler
Scout John Hurst's Story of the Fight	184	(9)
John Hurst
An Interview with Scout John Hurst	193	(3)
Walter M. Camp
Scout Schlesinger's Story	196	(11)
Sigmund Schlesinger
The Battle of the Arikaree	207	(10)
Thomas B. Murphy
Wounded at Beecher Island	217	(2)
Howard Morton
Beecher Island Diary	219	(4)
Chauncey B. Whitney
The Story of a Rescue	223	(9)
Louis H. Carpenter
The Relief of Beecher Island	232	(8)
James J. Peate
PART THREE: Sully's North Canadian Expedition, 1868
Some Reminiscences, Including an Account of General Sully's Expedition against the Southern Plains Indians, 1868	240	(7)
Edward S. Godfrey
Fighting Indians from an Ambulance	247	(3)
Anthony C. Rallya
Sully's Expedition to the Canadian: A Huge Joke	250	(2)
Joel H. Elliott
The Fight on Prairie Dog Creek	252	(4)
Anonymous
PART FOUR: The Cheyenne War, 1868--69
Sheridan's Indian Campaign	256	(3)
William C. Church
``Soldat'' General Sully's Winter Expedition	259	(4)
An Indian Campaign	263	(17)
Horace L. Moore
The 19th Kansas Cavalry and the Conquest of the Plains Indians	280	(27)
James A. Hadley
A Few Years' Experience on the Western Frontier	307	(17)
Joseph P. Rodgers
Camp Starvation	324	(2)
W. R. Smith
Lost in the Snow at Old Camp Supply	326	(8)
George B. Jenness
Campaigning with the 19th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry	334	(5)
Henry Pearson
The Washita Campaign	339	(16)
Edward S. Godfrey
The Washita Campaign and the Battle of the Washita	355	(11)
Edward G. Mathey
Our Washita Battle	366	(24)
Francis M. Gibson
Battle of Washita	390	(4)
Charles Brewster
The Indian War---Battle of the Washita---Report of General Custer	394	(4)
George A. Custer
She-Wolf's Account of the Death of Major Elliott	398	(3)
George Bent
Another Side of the Washita Story	401	(3)
Frederick W. Benteen
Colonel Evans's Indian Expedition	404	(3)
Edward Hunter
The Story of an Indian Campaign: Carr's Republican River Expedition of 1869	407	(3)
Edward M. Hayes
The Capture of a Cheyenne Village [Summit Springs]	410	(4)
Anonymous
PART FIVE: Mackenzie and the Texas Frontier, 1866--73
One Wagon-Train Boss of Texas	414	(5)
William M. Edgar
Recollections of the Kiowas and Comanches	419	(2)
Britton Davis
With the 6th U.S. Cavalry in Texas	421	(2)
Benjamin T. Hutchins
An Indian Attack in 1868	423	(5)
William J. Miller
Scouting with Mackenzie	428	(5)
W. A. Thompson
``Eureka'' On the Trail of Satanta	433	(4)
Over the Border with Mackenzie	437	(7)
E. B. Beaumont
A Raid into Mexico	444	(11)
Robert G. Carter
``Recorder'' With the Buffalo Soldiers on the Texas Frontier	455	(3)
Buffalo Days	458	(27)
J. Wright Mooar
An Adobe Walls Defender	485	(3)
W. K. Myers
PART SIX: The Red River War, 1874--75
My First Fight on the Plains	488	(9)
Nelson A. Miles
A Terrible Ride through Indian Country	497	(10)
Frank D. Baldwin
Scouting with Baldwin on the Texas Panhandle	507	(9)
Lemuel T. Wilson
A Fight with the Comanches and Kiowas	516	(8)
Wyllys Lyman
Billy Dixon, a Frontier Hero	524	(14)
E. A. Brininstool
Mackenzie's Expedition on the Staked Plains	538	(7)
George E. Albee
With Mackenzie in the Texas Panhandle	545	(8)
Charles A. P. Hatfield
Battle of Palo Duro Canyon	553	(6)
John B. Charlton
The Sappa Creek Fight	559	(9)
Austin Henely
PART SEVEN: Raids and Reprisals, 1865--81
Railroad Grading among Indians	568	(6)
Adolph Roenigk
A Gallant Stand on the Little Blue River	574	(2)
Anonymous
``Buford'' Indians at Ogallala Station, Union Pacific Railroad	576	(2)
A Fearful March on the Staked Plains	578	(9)
Nicholas Nolan
A Brief Account of the Sufferings of a Detachment of United States Cavalry from Deprivation of Water	587	(5)
J. H. T. King
Last Indian Raid in Southwest Texas	592	(6)
Mrs. Charles M. Harpole
PART EIGHT: The Ute War, 1879
Incidents of the Recent Campaign against the Utes	598	(16)
J. Scott Payne
The Outbreak of September 1879	614	(4)
H. W. Spooner
Rescuing Payne's Command	618	(6)
Wesley Merritt
Besieged by the Utes	624	(11)
Edwin V. Sumner
The White River Campaign	635	(7)
Lewis D. Greene
With Merritt's Command	642	(17)
John F. Finerty
Notes	659	(36)
Index	695