Cries From the Earth
“When General Howard asked David Perry that question late of the afternoon, the captain gazed squarely at his superior and, without the slightest hesitation, responded, “We will leave at first light, sir. Everything is in place, except for some additional transportation I’ll call down from Lewiston.”
With those civilian messengers and their Nez Perce counterparts all racing in here to Fort Lapwai with their discouraging reports, it was clear that the army needed to move and be about its business... without the slightest delay. For too long, so it seemed, they had dawdled in their dealings with the Non-Treaty bands, and now Oliver Otis Howard could see just what his liberality and evenhandedness had gotten him. Dead citizens and a territory just now being ravaged by the first flames of an Indian war.
That afternoon Howard had penned a message to be carried back to Loyal P. Brown in Mount Idaho, hoping to reassure those panic-stricken civilians that the army had received the two dispatches and that help was indeed on its way: … [I am sending] two companies of cavalry to your relief … Other help will be en route as soon as it can be brought up.MoreLess
With those civilian messengers and their Nez Perce counterparts all racing in here to Fort Lapwai with their discouraging reports, it was clear that the army needed to move and be about its business... without the slightest delay. For too long, so it seemed, they had dawdled in their dealings with the Non-Treaty bands, and now Oliver Otis Howard could see just what his liberality and evenhandedness had gotten him. Dead citizens and a territory just now being ravaged by the first flames of an Indian war.
That afternoon Howard had penned a message to be carried back to Loyal P. Brown in Mount Idaho, hoping to reassure those panic-stricken civilians that the army had received the two dispatches and that help was indeed on its way: … [I am sending] two companies of cavalry to your relief … Other help will be en route as soon as it can be brought up.MoreLess
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