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131 Series I Volume XLI-I Serial 83 - Price's Missouri Expedition Part I

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JULY 25-AUGUST 11, 1864.-Scout in Yell County, Ark., with skirmishes.

Report of Colonel Abraham H. Ryan, Third Arkansas Cavalry (Union).

LEWISBURG, August 11, 1864-8 a. m.

Captain Herring has returned from an eighteen days' scout in Yell county; killed the two Newsom brothers. Reports that the rebels are running conscripts, negroes, and captured and stolen property south by way of Centre Point and Caddo Gap.

A. H. RYAN,

Colonel.

Captain C. H. DYER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

JULY 25-OCTOBER 8, 1864.-Expedition against Sioux Indians in Dakota Territory.

SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS.

July 28, 1864.-Action at the Tahkahokuty Mountain.

August 8-9, 1864.-Action on the Little Missouri River.

REPORTS.*


Numbers 1.-Major General John Pope, U. S. Army, commanding Department of the Northwest.


Numbers 2.-Brigadier General Alfred Sully, U. S. Army, commanding Northwestern Indian Expedition.


Numbers 3.-Lieutenant Colonel Samuel M. Pollock, Sixth Iowa Cavalry, First Brigade.


Numbers 4.-Lieutenant Colonel John Pattee, Seventh Iowa Cavalry.


Numbers 5.-Major Alfred B. Brackett, Brackett's Minnesota Battalion Cavalry.


Numbers 6.-Captain Nelson Miner, First Battalion Dakota Cavalry.


Numbers 7.-Captain Christian Stufft, Independent Company of Indian Scouts.


Numbers 8.-Captain Nathaniel Pope, Prairie Battery.


Numbers 9.-Colonel Minor T. Thomas, Eighth Minnesota Infantry, commanding Second Brigade.


Numbers 10.-Lieutenant Colonel Henry C. Rogers, Eighth Minnesota Infantry.


Numbers 11.-Major George A. Camp. Eighth Minnesota Infantry.


Numbers 12.-Colonel Robert N. McLaren, Second Minnesota Cavalry.


Numbers 13.-Major C. Powell Adams, Independent Battalion Minnesota Cavalry.


Numbers 1. Reports of Major General John Pope, U. S. Army, commanding Department of the Northwest.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE NORTHWEST,
Milwaukee, Wis., October 6, 1864.

GENERAL: I have the honor to transmit by this mail detailed reports of General Sully, recounting the operations of his expedition from July 28 (the date of his first battle on Knife River with combined tribes of Sioux) to September 11.

You will perceive that at the crossing of the Little Missouri, on his route to the Yellowstone, Sully had another severe battle, at which the

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*See also expedition from Fort Rice, Dak., September 11-30, 1864, p. 795.

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