Grenville Dodge: “In this way I have no doubt these Indians can be kept in their own country, their outrages stopped, and our overland…”

In view of all the facts, I must doubt the sincerity of those who are seeking to bring discredit upon our little Army, the marvellous efficiency of which has won the admiration of the world.

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

There is no officer listening to me who did not see cruelties in the Civil War.

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…