Grenville Dodge: “We already saw that we were greatly outnumbered, and that only desperate fighting would save our scalps.”

I must say this is the first time I ever heard of national honor being sustained by such methods.

Under the regulations, it is impossible for the Army to defend itself and make answer to these attacks, except through their own officers, and their reports do not reach the public, for the press seems to use only that which reflects upon…

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…