Grenville Dodge: “Their life and methods are not accustomed to it, and the Indians can be driven by very inferior forces by continually…”

The only strategy or tactics was the movement of Van Dorn attacking on the right flank and in the rear, and these moves were fatal to his success.

His ability and foresight in organizing the transportation of an Army, feeding it, and fitting it for a campaign, was shown every day.

The men, if properly officered, would make good soldiers, but with their present officers they are little better than an armed mob.

This campaign demonstrated early in the war what could be accomplished by a small Army 300 miles away from any rail or water communication, in a rugged, mountainous, sparsely settled county, marching in winter, and virtually subsisting…