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every advantage ot location in their favor.re- 'The troops, believing that the Indians were unarmed, charged recklessly through the deep sand; but, instead ot meeting a defenseless foe, fell under the range of deadly rifles. Three times the soldiers charged, and three times they were repulsed. The official report of the battle says the troops —consisting of four companies of the Sixth Cavalry, under command of Gen. Neil in person—lost six seriously and ten slightly wounded. Private letters from the agency say that the loss was much greater than that. It is known that the troops were badly whipped, although they fought bravely and against great odds.A sad blunder has been committed; but, at this time, it is difficult to fix the responsibility where it rightly belongs. The loss of the gallant soldiers who fell in the charge, deplorable as it may be, is not the worst feature of the blunder. The Indians have gone on the war-path again, and there is danger that the good results of last year’s campaign under Gen. Miles have been lost by one stupid blunder in managing the prisoners.It is well known that Congress made an appropriation of $300,000 to subsist the Indian prisoners at Fort Leavenworth. The appropriation was secured by the immediate request of the President, who had listened to the counsels of Gens Sherman, Sheridan and Pope, and consented to a change of policy to the extent of transferring the hostile Indians to the care of the military authorities. After the money was appropriated Secretary Delano ordered the transfer of the Indians to the respective agencies, reserving for military control only those who had been identified as the murderers of the Germain family. The $300,000 voted to feed and clothe the prisoners at Fort Leavenworth lias been expended in the purchase of beef at the frontier agencies, where supplies accumulated during all the months of last year that the warriors were absent on the warpath.— Ijeatemcorth, Kan., (April 14) Cor. Chicago Tribune.—That strikes are usually disastrous to the working classes has been fullv exem-ot Fflll TilVCr. T*»
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Wood County Reporter
Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, US
Thu, Apr 29, 1875
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