Grenville Dodge: “I will settle these Indian difficulties before spring satisfactorily to the Government, and bring about a peace that…”

I have heard of brave acts, but such determined pluck I never before dreamed of.

They crawled in on their hands and knees, and swept the enemy from that front.

After your expedition started I received documentary proof from Captains Sturgis, Schofield, and Totten, and a number of other officers, in regard to his conduct on those occasions, which destroyed all confidence in him.

It was thought, and was also stated in the papers, that I could not live, and I told General Halleck afterwards that they expected to have the credit of making a Brigadier-General and at the same time to have a vacancy, too, but that on…