Ab-sa-ra-ka; or, Wyoming opened: . The reports of the Secretaries of War and theInterior to Congress in February, 1867, made up from looseprivate letters and speculations, without knowledge of thefacts, contain one private letter dated Fort Phil Kearney,December 28, 1886, which demands correction while a de-serving officer is still living. That letter represents Captain James W. Powell as goingto the relief of Fetterman and the rescue of the dead. Cap-tain Tenodore Ten Eyck was the officer who gallantly per-formed that duty. Captain Powell did not leave the stockade. Captain TenEyck also accom

Ab-sa-ra-ka; or, Wyoming opened: . The reports of the Secretaries of War and theInterior to Congress in February, 1867, made up from looseprivate letters and speculations, without knowledge of thefacts, contain one private letter dated Fort Phil Kearney,December 28, 1886, which demands correction while a de-serving officer is still living. That letter represents Captain James W. Powell as goingto the relief of Fetterman and the rescue of the dead. Cap-tain Tenodore Ten Eyck was the officer who gallantly per-formed that duty. Captain Powell did not leave the stockade. Captain TenEyck also accom Stock Photo

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Ab-sa-ra-ka; or, Wyoming opened: . The reports of the Secretaries of War and theInterior to Congress in February, 1867, made up from looseprivate letters and speculations, without knowledge of thefacts, contain one private letter dated Fort Phil Kearney, December 28, 1886, which demands correction while a de-serving officer is still living. That letter represents Captain James W. Powell as goingto the relief of Fetterman and the rescue of the dead. Cap-tain Tenodore Ten Eyck was the officer who gallantly per-formed that duty. Captain Powell did not leave the stockade. Captain TenEyck also accompanied his colonel to the field the nextmorning for the rescue of the remaining dead, at the closeof an officers meeting, in which Captain Powell advisedagainst the movement as endangering the entire garrisonand post. (See Official Report.) H. B. C. ( MAP N? 1.) CARRINGTONSOUTLINE OF INDIAN OPERATIONSON THE PLAINS. 31 s -S 111. ^1 1^1 .^^^ iS s^j-? ^^eC3<S*;(i ijJ?i nlAiU I i ^ il t s I till nil If ill Hit ni r I filillli fill.

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