The regiment made a forced march that night of thirty-five miles, which was splendid traveling for an infantry regiment through a mountainous country.
Generals Crook and Terry spent the evening and the next day in council.
The following morning both commands moved out on the Indian trail.
Although Terry was the senior officer, he did not assume command of both expeditions.

Crook was left in command of his own troops, though the two forces operated together.

We crossed the Tongue River and moved on to the Powder, proceeding down that stream to a point twenty miles from its junction with the Yellowstone.

There the Indian trail turned to the southeast, in the direction of the Black Hills.
The two commands were now nearly out of supplies.

The trail was abandoned, and the troops kept on down the Powder River to its confluence with the Yellowstone.