We found General Sheridan there ahead of us, and mighty glad was I to see that brave and able commander once more.

Sheridan was accompanied by General Frye and General Forsythe, and all were en route for the Red Cloud Agency, near the center of the Sioux trouble, which was then reaching really alarming proportions.

The command was to remain at Laramie for a few days; so, at General Sheridan's request, I accompanied him on his journey.

We were able to accomplish little in the way of peace overtures.
The Indians had lately committed many serious depredations along the Black Hills trail.

Gold had been discovered there in many new places, and the miners, many of them tenderfoots, and unused to the ways of the red man, had come into frequent conflict with their new neighbors.
Massacres, some of them very flagrant, had resulted and most of the treaties our Government had made with the Indians had been ruthlessly broken.
On my return from the agency, the Fifth Cavalry was sent out to scout the country between there and the Black Hills.