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The Daily Dispatch: January 12, 1865., [Electronic resource], A battle with Indians. (search)
ut Colonel Chivington is of the opinion that the was not. Among the stock captured were a number of Government horses and mules, including the twenty or thirty stolen from the command of Lieutenant Chase, at Jimmy's camp, last summer. "The Indian camp was well supplied with defensive works. For half a mile along the creek there was an almost continuous chain of rifle-pits, and another similar line of works crowned the adjacent bluff. Pits had been dug at all the salient points for miles. After the battle, twenty-three dead Indians were taken from one of these pits, and twenty-seven from another. "Whether viewed as a march or as a battle, the exploit has few, if any, parallels. A march of two hundred and sixty miles in but a fraction more than five days, with deep snow, scanty forage and no road, is a remarkable feat, while the utter surprise of a large Indian village is unprecedented. In no single battle in North America, we believe, have so many Indians been slain."