Trumpet on the Land (2 page)

Captain J. Scott Payne—F Troop, Fifth Cavalry

Captain H. J. Nowlan—Seventh Cavalry, acting assistant quartermaster to the Dakota Column

Lieutenant John G. Bourke—aide-de-camp to General Crook

Lieutenant Henry R. Lemly—Regimental Adjutant to Colonel Royall

First Lieutenant William L. Carpenter—G Company, Ninth Infantry

First Lieutenant Adolphus H. Von Luettwitz—E. Troop, Third Cavalry

First Lieutenant Augustus C. Paul—M Troop, Third Cavalry

First Lieutenant Edward S. Godfrey—Seventh Cavalry

First Lieutenant Emmet Crawford—G Troop, Third Cavalry

First Lieutenant Henry Seton—D Company, Fourth Infantry

First Lieutenant Joseph Lawson—A Troop, Third Cavalry

First Lieutenant William C. Forbush—Fifth Cavalry, Assistant Adjutant General

First Lieutenant Charles King—Fifth Cavalry, Adjutant

First Lieutenant William P. Hall—Fifth Cavalry, Quartermaster

First Lieutenant Walter S. Schuyler—Fifth Cavalry, aide-decamp to Crook

First Lieutenant William Philo Clark—I Troop, Second Cavalry, aide-de-camp to General Crook

Second Lieutenant Robert London—A Troop, Fifth Cavalry (after Wilson resigns)

Second Lieutenant Charles M. Rockefeller—H Company, Ninth Infantry

Second Lieutenant Edgar B. Robertson—H Company, Ninth Infantry

Second Lieutenant Henry D. Huntington—D Troop, Second Cavalry

Second Lieutenant Edward L. Keyes—C Troop, Fifth Cavalry

Second Lieutenant J. Hayden Pardee—Twenty-third Infantry, aide-de-camp to Merritt

Lieutenant William C. Hunter—U.S. Navy (Brevet COMMODORE)

Dr. Bennett A. Clements—Surgeon, Expedition Medical Director (oversaw eight medical personnel, assistant surgeons and stewards)

Dr. Albert Hartsuff—Assistant Surgeon

Dr. Julius H. Patzki—Assistant Surgeon

Dr. Charles R. Stephens—Assistant Surgeon

Dr. J. W. Powell—Assistant Surgeon, Fifth Cavalry

Dr. Valentine McGillycuddy—Assistant Surgeon

First Lieutenant Alfred B. Bache—F Troop, Fifth Cavalry

Second Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka—M Troop, Third Cavalry

Second Lieutenant George F. Chase—L Troop, Third Cavalry

First Lieutenant John W. Bubb—Commissary of Subsistence

First Lieutenant Emmet Crawford—G Troop, Third Cavalry

First Lieutenant William B. Rawolle—E. Troop, Second Cavalry

Lieutenant Frederick W. Sibley—E. Troop, Second Cavalry

Sergeant Oscar Cornwall—Second Cavalry, Sibley Patrol

Sergeant Charles W. Day—Second Cavalry, Sibley Patrol

Sergeant G. P. Harrington—Second Cavalry, Sibley Patrol

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Sergeant Edmund Schreiber—K. Troop, Fifth Cavalry

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Sergeant John A. Kirkwood—M Troop, Third Cavalry

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Sergeant Edward Glass—E. Troop, Third Cavalry

Corporal Thomas C. Warren—Second Cavalry,
Sibley
Patrol

Corporal Thomas W. Wilkinson—K. Troop, Fifth Cavalry

Corporal J. S. Clanton—B. Troop, Fifth Cavalry

Private Valentine Rufus—Second Cavalry, Sibley Patrol

Private Patrick Hasson—Second Cavalry, Sibley Patrol

Private George Rhode—Second Cavalry, Sibley Patrol

Private George Watts—Second Cavalry, Sibley Patrol

Private Henry Collins—Second Cavalry, Sibley Patrol

Private William Evans—E. Company, Seventh Infantry

Private Benjamin F. Stewart—E. Company, Seventh Infantry

Private James Bell—E Company, Seventh Infantry

Private Christian Madsen—A Troop, Fifth Cavalry

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Private John Wenzel—A Troop, Third Cavalry

Private Albert Glavinski—M Troop, Third Cavalry

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Private Orlando H. Duren—E. Troop, Third Cavalry

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Private Edward Kennedy—C Troop, Fifth Cavalry

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Private John M. Stevenson—I Troop, Second Cavalry

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Private August Dorn—D Troop, Fifth Cavalry

Private Cyrus B. Milner—A Troop, Fifth Cavalry

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Private Edward Kiernan—E Troop, Third Cavalry

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Private William B. DuBois—C Troop, Third Cavalry

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Private August Foran—D Troop, Third Cavalry

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Private Charles Foster—B Troop, Third Cavalry

Shoshone Allies

Washakie

Sioux

American Horse                                                Little Eagle

Dog Necklace                                                 Antelope Tail

Charging Bear                                                Red Horse

Iron Thunder

Cheyenne

Yellow Hair                                                 Rain Maker

Civilian Characters

John “Trailer Jack” Becker—packer on Sibley Scout

Wilbur Storey—owner/publisher, Chicago Times

Clint Snowden—city editor, Chicago Times

Thomas Moore—Chief of Pack Train

Richard “Uncle Dick” Closter

Grant Marsh—captain,
Far West
steamboat

Dave Campbell—pilot,
Far West
steamboat

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James B. Glover—packer

E. B. Farnum—Mayor of Deadwood

Martha Luhn—officer's wife at Fort Laramie

Elizabeth Burt—officer's wife at Fort Laramie

Robert Strahorn—correspondent, Denver
Rocky Mountain News
, Chicago
Tribune
, Cheyenne
Sun
, and the Omaha
Republican

John F. Finerty—correspondent, Chicago
Times

Joe Wasson—correspondent, New York
Tribune
, Philadelphia
Press
, and San Francisco
Alta California

Reuben B. Davenport—correspondent, New York
Herald

T. B. MacMillan—correspondent, Chicago
Inter-Ocean

J. J. Talbot—correspondent, New York
Graphic

Barbour Lathrop—correspondent, San Francisco
Evening Bulletin

Cuthbert Mills—New York
Times

Tom Cosgrove—civilian leader of the Shoshone battalion

Nelson Yarnell—Cosgrove's lieutenant

Yancy Eckles—Cosgrove's sergeant

At Laramie I told the commissioners that I had seen the Sioux commit a massacre; they killed many white men. But the Sioux are still here, and still kill white men.
When you whites whip the Sioux come and tell us of it.
You are afraid of the Sioux. Two years ago I went with the soldiers; they talked very brave. They said they were going through the Sioux country to Powder River and Tongue River. We got to Pryor Creek, just below here in the Crow country. I wanted to go ahead, but the soldiers got scared and turned back. The soldiers were the whirlwind, but the whirlwind turned back. Last summer the soldiers went to Pryor Creek again; again the whirlwind was going through Sioux country, but again the whirlwind turned back. We Crows are not the whirlwind, but we go to the Sioux; we go to their country; we meet them and fight; we do not turn back. But then
we
are not the whirlwind! … The Sioux are on the way, and you are afraid of them; they will turn the whirlwind back.

—Blackfoot
Crow war chief

The people must be left with nothing but their eyes to weep with.

—Lieutenant General Philip H. Sheridan

The “Sibley Scout” is famous among Indian fighters as being one of the narrowest escapes from savages now on record.

—Editorial
The New York
Tribune

Toward the end of the perilous march [of the Sibley patrol], we all became so weakened that we marched for ten minutes and then would lie down and rest. Several of the most robust men became insane, and one or two never regained their wits.

—Lieutenant Frederick W. Sibley

[The skirmish at Warbonnet Creek] is one of few cases where a large party of Indians was successfully ambushed by troops.

—Don Russell
Campaigning with King

For the Indians who had gloried in the victory of Little Big Horn, Slim Buttes heralded the retaliatory blows that ultimately broke their resistance and forced their submission … the actions of September 9 and 10, 1876, commenced the relentless punitive warfare that was to be waged over the next eight months, until the tribesmen either had died or had gone peaceably to the agencies.

—Jerome A. Green
Slim Buttes, 1876

… many a suffering stomach gladdened with a welcome change from horse meat, tough and stringy, to rib roasts of pony, grass-fed, sweet, and succulent. There is no such sauce as starvation.

—Lieutenant Charles King
Campaigning with Crook

The terrible persistence with which [Crook] urged his faint, starving, foot-sore, tattered soldiers along the trail, to which he clung with a resolution and determination that nothing could shake, entitles him to the respect and admiration of his countrymen—a respect and admiration, by the way, which was fully accorded him by his gallant and equally desperate foes.

—Cyrus Townsend Brady
Indian Fights and Fighters

Only the brave and fearless can be just.

—Old Lakota proverb

For acting to stop the Cheyennes, [Merritt] was commended by General Sheridan; for delaying the march of the Big Horn and Yellowstone Expedition for a week, he was blamed by General Crook.

—Don Russell
The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill

The battle [of Slim Buttes] was one of the most picturesque ever fought in the West. Crook and his officers stood in the camp, the center of a vast amphitheater ringed with fire, up the sides of which the soldiers steadily climbed to get at the Indians, silhouetted in all their war finery against the sky.