General Crook commands a third column that …
Years: 1876 - 1876
March
General Crook commands a third column that departs Fort Fetterman to head north.
The plan is for all three columns to converge simultaneously on the Lakota hunting grounds and pin down the Indians between the approaching troops.
Locations
People
- Alfred Terry
- Crazy Horse
- George Armstrong Custer
- George Crook
- Nelson A. Miles
- Philip Sheridan
- Sitting Bull
- Ulysses S. Grant
Groups
- Lakota, aka Teton Sioux (Amerind tribe)
- Cheyenne people (Amerind tribe)
- United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC)
- Dakota, Territory of (U.S.A.)
Topics
- Indian Wars in Upper North America
- Black Hills Gold Rush, Dakota Territory, United States
- Great Sioux War of 1876
- America's “Gilded Age;” 1876 through 1887
- Little Bighorn, Battle of the
- Powder River, Battle of
