[Terry, Alfred H.]:

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[CONTEMPORARY MANUSCRIPT COPY OF GENERAL ALFRED H. TERRY'S GENERAL ORDER NUMBER 11, COMMENDING NELSON A. MILES FOR HIS EFFORTS IN PURSUIT OF SITTING BULL, CRAZY HORSE, AND OTHER "HOSTILE INDIANS" ... In the wake of the Battle of Little Big Horn and the death of George Armstrong Custer and his men, the U.S. Army launched a massive campaign to pursue the victorious Lakota Sioux and their allies, specifically Chief Sitting Bull. Nelson Miles, a Civil War veteran and still not forty years old, was a leader in this campaign and saw several successes, culminating in the capture of the Nez Perce leader, Chief Joseph, in late 1877. Several months before that success, Miles and his forces fought Crazy Horse and his Sioux warriors on January 8, 1877, at the Battle of Wolf Mountain (also called the Battle on the Tongue River), achieving an important strategic victory.The following month, Brig. Gen. Alfred Terry, commander of the Department of the Dakota, issued his General Order No. 11, congratulating Miles on his victory, of which this is a contemporary manuscript copy. Since no army field press was available, it is likely Terry had several copies of the order written out. Terry writes the Adjutant General of the Division of the Missouri:"I desire to invite the attention of the Lieut. General to the great vigor & zeal which has been displayed by General Miles, his officers & men with extremely limited means and under the most disadvantageous circumstances he has persistently pursued an

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