. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. m of-thedestruction that followed the battle. They also destroyed 300 deserted lodges andother property of great value to the Indians. It was their winter supply of meatand represented more than one thousand slaughtered buffalo. Capt. R. B. l\Iason,wagon master, said the fat ran in streams from the burning mass of found in the camp or on the dead, loot from the Minnesota massacre, andfrom General Sibleys supply trains, and from those murdered in the mackinawat .Apple Creek. The expedition returned overland to Fort Pierr
. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. m of-thedestruction that followed the battle. They also destroyed 300 deserted lodges andother property of great value to the Indians. It was their winter supply of meatand represented more than one thousand slaughtered buffalo. Capt. R. B. l\Iason,wagon master, said the fat ran in streams from the burning mass of found in the camp or on the dead, loot from the Minnesota massacre, andfrom General Sibleys supply trains, and from those murdered in the mackinawat .Apple Creek. The expedition returned overland to Fort Pierre and downthe river to Yankton. sullys expedition of 1864 General Sully had been selected to command an expedition in 1864 to furthercontinue the punishment of the Indians who had been engaged in the Minnesotamassacre of 1862, begun by General Sibley that year and continued by him andGeneral Sully in 1863. The Indians were concentrated west of the MissouriRiver, harassing the frontier settlers by raids in Dakota, Minnesota and Ne- e H > HHOi HO Si a rc oa H. HISTORY OF NORTH DAKOTA 291 braska, and attacking the transportation on the Missouri River, and the im-migrant parties passing over territory they regarded as their own. Theyembraced remnants of Little Crows bands, Uncapapas, Yanktonnais, Blackfeet,Minneconjous and parts of other tribes. General Sullys headquarters were at Sioux City. He had selected Com-panies A and B, Dakota Cavalry, as his body guard, assigning other troopsconcentrated at Yankton, for the protection of the Dakota settlements. The ren-dezvous of his command was at old Fort Sully near Fort Pierre. It consisted ofthe two companies of Dakota Cavalry, Popes Battery, the Sixth Iowa Cavalry,Bracketts Battalion of Minnesota Cavalry, three companies of the SeventhIowa Cavalry and one company of Nebraska Cavalry. They were joined by theMinnesota contingent under the command of Colonel Thomas, at Swan Lake;this contingent consisting of the Eighth Minnesota Mount
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