34th
Congress Report # 193
Defense
of Nebraska Frontier Settlements: June 23, 1856
Five
page report presented by the Commitee on Military affairs with actions
taken on the subject of paying expenses occurred by calling out volunteers
to subdue Sioux Indians in the area by the Territory. All papers on
file with the War Department are also within printed totaling seven
letters between Mark W. Izard, ( Governor of the Territory,) and Secretary
of War Jefferson Davis. Davis at the time forwarded the request for
a series of forts built "commencing at a suitable point on the
Missouri and extending along the western boundary of the ceded territory
to the Platt river," to General Harney, commanding the Sioux
expedition in the Territory. "The Indians have already murdered
and scalped two unoffending citizens, and unless timely measures are
taken the principal settlements in Nebraska will be broken up,"
wrote Izard of the problem. General Harney's letter of August 27,
1855 recommended that the 1st Cavalry then forming at Fort Leavenworth
be sent to the governor's relief.
A nice report detailing early Indian history in the Nebraska Territory.
