41st CONGRESS, 3d Session.
Ex. Doc. No. 51
Senate
LETTER
FROM
THE SECRETARY OF WAR
COMMUNICATING
The report of Lieutenant Gustavus C. Doane
upon the so-called Yellowstone Expedition of 1870.
MARCH 3, 1871.--Referred to the Committee
on Territories and ordered to be printed.
WAR DEPARTMENT, February 24,
1871
. The Secretary of War has the
honor to subnit to the Committee on Territories of the United States Senate
the accompanying report of Lieutenant Gustavus C. Doane, United States
Army, upon the so-called Yellowstone Expedition of 1870, and to recommend,
for the reasons stated by the commander of the Department of Dakota and
the General of the Army, that the report be printed for public information.
W. W. BELKNAP,
Secretary of War.
FORT ELLIS, MONTANA
TERRITORY,
SIR: The subjoined special order
was received from your office by me on the 21st of August, 1870:
[Special Order No. 100.--Extract.]
HEADQUARTERS FORT ELLIS, MONTANA
TERRITORY,
August 21, 1870.
In accordance with instructions
from Headquarters District of Montana, Lieutenant G. C. Doane, Second Cavalry,
will proceed with one sergeant and four privates of Company F, Second Cavalry,
to escort the surveyor general of Montana to the falls and lakes of the
Yellowstone, and return. They will be supplied with thirty days'
rations, and one hundred rounds of ammunition per man. The acting
assistant quartermaster will furnish them with the necessary transportation.
By order of Major Baker.
J. G. MACADAMS,
First Lieutenant Second Cavalry,
Acting Post Adjutant.
In obedience to the above
order, I joined the party of General H. D. Washburn, en route for the Yellowstone,
and then encamped near Fort Ellis, Montana Territory, with a detachment
of Company F, Second Cavalry, consisting of Sergeant William Baker, Privates
Charles Moore, John Williamson, William Leipler, and George W. McConnell.
The detachment was supplied with two extra saddle horses and five pack
mules for transportation of supplies. A large pavilion tent was Go
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