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Inflicted on His Body—End of Four Days' Fighting—The Indians Retire—Losses on Both Sides—Fort Bennett Erected—Safe Arrival of Governor Stevens at the Fort—His Course With the Cœur d'Alenes, Spokanes, Nez Perces—Looking Glass Treacherous—Successful Councils—Resignation of Nesmith—Thomas Cornelius is Chosen Colonel—The Regiment Recruited—Hard Fare—Fight With the Yakimas—Loss of Mounts—Regimented Disbanded—A Battalion of Oregon Rangers Organized |
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Arrival of Colonel Wright with Ninth Infantry—Posts Garrisoned—Importance of the Cascades—Error of General Wool—Attack on the Cascades by the Yakimas—The Long Siege of Bradford's Store—Appearance of the Troops—Volunteers and Regulars from Vancouver and Portland—Sheridan's Plight—Steptoe's Error—List of Killed and Wounded—Trial and Punishment of the Cascade Indians—Wright's Campaign in the Yakima Country, and Its Results—Course of Governor Stevens—Washington Volunteers Take the Place of the Disbanded Oregon Mounted Volunteer Regiment—Letter of Indian Agent Craig—Battle of Grand Rond—Effect of Shaw's Policy—Stevens' Remarks Upon the Policy of Colonel Wright—Fort Walla Walla Established—The Oregon and Washington Superintendencies United—General Wool Recalled, and General Newman S. Clarke Succeeds Him—Slight Changes at First—Steptoe's Disastrous March—Clarke and Wright at Last Aroused—Wright's Campaign—Battle of Four Lakes—The Troops Victorious and the Indians Subdued—Kamiakin's Flight—Wright's Heroic Treatment of the Indian Question When the Army the Hurt |
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