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I cannot approve the manner in which the Indians have been treated, and have no faith in them, nor will I allow such treatment as shown at the Big Sandy fight.
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Dodge critiques the treatment of Native Americans and expresses his lack of faith in their current treatment.
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There was no strategy nor tactics in this battle; it was simply men standing up and giving and taking, and the one that stood the longest won the battle.
What we need are troops, supplies for them, and a vigorous campaign against these hostile Indians.
They crawled in on their hands and knees, and swept the enemy from that front.
Suppose the Sixteenth Corps, with less than 5,000 men, seeing at least three times their number in their front, should have retreated, instead of standing and fighting as it did: What would have been the result?
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