Yellowstone Command: Colonel Nelson A. Miles and the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877

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The ongoing popular fascination with Custer and the Battle of the Little Big Horn has obscured the role played by Colonel Nelson A. Miles within the Great Sioux War. “Yellowstone Command” provides an in depth account of the campaign of Colonel Miles within the winter of 1876-77 as he moved against the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians within the aftermath of the Custer debacle. Drawing on in the past unpublished materials and providing troop-movement maps, the writer fills in a bit-studied chapter in US military history. All through the campaign, Miles’s 5th Infantry engaged in five major battles with the Indians, in addition to a virtually constant series of skirmishes intended to revive American military power and morale. The text describes Miles’ revitalization of army strategy and reconstructs battles – at Wolf Mountain and at Clear, Spring, Cedar, Bark, Ash and Muddy Creeks – that were decisive in closing the conflict in 1877.

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