[9]. Killed on Lodge Trail Ridge
[10]. Published by the United States Senate in 1887.
[11]. At the burial of Sergeant Bowers, Captain Brown, who had known him during the Civil War, pinned his Army of the Cumberland badge upon his breast, and this was found when the remains were reinterred in 1878.
[12]. Phil Kearney Garrison, at date of massacre, from “Post Returns”:—
| Wood Party, besides teamsters | 55 men |
| Fetterman’s Party (two citizens) | 81 men |
| Ten Eyck’s Party (relieving) | 94 men |
| Helpless in hospital | 7 men |
| Roll-call, of present, all told | 119 men |
| Total officers and men | 356 men |
Ninety rifles worn out by use on horseback. Citizen employees used their private arms.
Information furnished by General H. B. Carrington.
[13]. “Ab-sa-ra-ka, Land of Massacre,” by Mrs. Carrington, of which Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote to General Carrington as follows: “What an interesting record is that of Mrs. Carrington! I cannot read such a story of devotion and endurance in the midst of privations and danger, without feeling how little most of us know of what life can be when all the human energies are called out by great enterprises and emergencies.”
[14]. The Indians, where possible, remove the bodies of their slain. They did during this campaign, as few dead Indians ever came into possession of the troops.
[15]. Once, while loading the bodies in the wagons, a nervous sergeant mistook one of the pickets for Indians in the rear, and gave the alarm. His detail was sharply ordered by the general to “leave their ammunition and get back to the fort as best they could, if they were afraid; for no armed man would be allowed to leave until the last body was rescued.”