[22] Muster Roll, Co. K, op. cit. (footnote 7), August 31, 1878, to June 30, 1882; Certificate of Disability for Discharge, Private Hermann Stieffel, April 8, 1882, Adjutant General's Records, National Archives. The date of June 23, given on the Muster Roll, was apparently that on which the discharge received final approval in Washington.
[23] There is no record of Stieffel's ever having been a member of the Soldiers' Home, but the Home's records for the 1880's are very incomplete. However, his discharge gives his forwarding address as that institution, and there is definite record of the date of his death and interment there.
[24] Report of Brig. Gen. R. B. Marcy, September 24, 1867, document no. 1,000, AGO, Department of Missouri, vol. 4, 1867, Civil War Branch, National Archives.
[25] Report of Chief of Ordnance, 1867, Washington, War Department, 1868.
[26] George Bird Grinnell, The Fighting Cheyenne, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1915, p. 235.
[27] Frazier and Robert Hunt, I Fought With Custer: The Story of Sergeant Windolph, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947, p. 92. For an excellent discussion of Indian armament at this period, see John E. Parsons and John S. DuMont, Firearms in the Custer Battle, Harrisburg, The Stackpole Company, 1953.
[28] Marcy's report, op. cit. (footnote 24).
[29] Jack Howland, artist for Harper's Weekly, also pictured Satanta speaking to the commissioners, and with more accuracy in that all the civilian commissioners are visible, but his pictures lack the color and drama of Stieffel's work. See: Harper's Weekly, November 16, 1867.
[30] The records of this treaty meeting are contained in the Office of Indian Affairs, Record Group 75, National Archives. The final treaties are reproduced in Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, vol. 2, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1903, pp. 754-764.
[31] There are several accounts of this. The best, in the opinion of the writer, is in James Mooney's "Calendar History of the Kiowa Indians," 17th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1898, pp. 181-186, 206-210.