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Miles Campaign Against Sitting Bull Recounted in Baldwin Diary
Lieut. F. D. Baldwin of the Fifth Infantry records a winter campaign against Sitting Bull from Nov 6 to Dec 21 in which Col. Miles pursued Sioux bands across the Yellowstone region. The diary notes rough weather, supply details, marches, engagements, and eventual surrender of more than 1,600 Indians near the Big Dry.
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Miles
Sitting Bull
F. D. Baldwin
Fifth Infantry
Montana
Lou" Grill
D. Baldwin
Fifth United States Infantry
Redwater
Nelson A. Miles
Yellowstone River Valley
Little Big Horn
Tongue River
Second
United States Cavalry
F. W. Sibley
Wesley Merritt
Fifth
War Bonnet Creek
Hat
Indian Creek
Red Cloud Agency
E. S. Otis
United States Infantry
Powder River
Red ‘Cannon
Mont
W. S. Collier
Fourth
Yellowstone River
Rosebud River
Sixth United States Infantry
17Th
O. H. Moore
Fort Buford
Yellowstone
Sixth
United States ‘Infantry
Nelson Bronson
Josephine
Benton
Glendive Creek
15Th ‘United States Infantry
C. W.miner
Clear Creek
Big Dry
Missouri River
Baldwin
Yellow‘stone River
J. S. Casey
A. S. Bennett
Edmund Butler
Robert McDonald
J. W. Pope
Simon Snyder
D. A. Rousseau
James H. Whitten
Wyllys Lyman
Mason Carter
Sunday Creek