Grenville Dodge: “The Indian character is such that he will not stand continual following, pounding, and attacking.”

We were always careful that no cruelties were committed by enlisted men, but whatever was done was by the order of an officer.

The national honor never has, never can, and never will be protected by such methods.

The right side is beginning to get a hearing, and when the facts and causes for the action of the Army are generally known, it will be found that our Army is as humane and well-behaved a body of troops as ever went into a foreign country…

They evidently have no desire to learn about these things, but want some excuse for attacking our Army, hoping thereby to bring dishonor upon our country before the world.