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Rutherford B. Hayes: “In answer to the resolution of the Senate dated December 7, 1877, I transmit herewith reports from the General of the…”

On the recordFebruary 19, 1878
In answer to the resolution of the Senate dated December 7, 1877, I transmit herewith reports from the General of the Army, the Quartermaster-General, the Commissary-General of Subsistence, and the Chief of Ordnance, showing what has been the cost (estimated) of the late war with the Sioux Indians, and what the casualties of rank and file among the soldiers engaged in said Sioux War.
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Rutherford B. Hayes
Republican · Ohio

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