Wilcox, no relation, that I can find, of the captain, was employed by the government to disinter the bodies and remove them to the government cemetery at Cottonwood. He quite easily located the grave of Captain Fouts and a soldier at Fort Mitchell, and after an extended search he found the two other soldiers, who had been buried on the battlefield. Later,- two other soldiers were disinterred at Fort Mitchell. All now rest at the beautiful cemetery a few miles east of the city of North Platte.

The date of the battle of Horse Creek as here given has been disputed by Erastus Wilson, Bugler Company B, 7th Iowa Cavalary, (now 1919), at the Soldier's Home at Grand Island, who was in the battle; he stating that it took place upon the 11th day of July, but I have it from John Hunton, and from the government records, and at least it is officially given as occurring on the 13th day of June, 1865. Wilson stoutly adheres to his date, and he declares the three soldiers were buried upon the battleground, their names being Phillip Alder,

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

Dick Crozier and McMann, although only two were found there.

General Conner, in the Spring of 1865, moved his headquarters from Denver to Fort Sedgwick, which was built not far from the site of the burned Julesburg, for from this point he could better direct operations.

Mooney says that Red Cloud was "the most famous and powerful chief in the history of the tribe, and rose to distinction by his own force of character." "He was not a hereditary chief, but a member of the band of which the chieftainship lay with the family of Young- Man-Afraid, the latter more conservative and friendly to civilization."