John Gibbon

He also said that he promised on the posters that he put up for it that it would be the crack battery of Indiana.

And I would imagine while he was doing his research into being an artillerist, one of the things he would have read was the artillerist manual written by none other than General John Gibbon.

Probably would have been.

He might have been.

Their strategic retreat took them to a secluded valley at Big Hole in the Montana Territory, where they believed that they had put enough distance between themselves and Howard's men.

However, the Nez Perce didn't know that Colonel John Gibbon had arrived.

His men launched a surprise attack, killing more than 60 Nez Perce.

Tragedy struck when Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce finally reached the Crow Nation safely, only to be turned away for fear that they would be treated as collaborators.

Some people, you guys might have been putting this guy higher, but for number three, I'm going to say West Point educated, multiple army serving.

Later to move up, John Gibbon.

Of course, his association as a brigade commander, when you look at what he's doing and then really look at him personally, You know, going on beyond Antietam and then just a stalwart, maybe not always the guy getting the farthest, but, you know, not only at Gettysburg helping to repulse Pickett's chart, didn't take long for me to bring up, but before that, one of the substantial movements at Fredericksburg on the south end of the field didn't penetrate as far.

Maybe it's George Gordon Meade, but has some real tough terrain and still crossed the railroad at the Slaughterpen Farm.

He's somebody I'm going to want if I'm a Corps commander because I think I can trust him.

I think there's going to be not too much nonsense, and I think he's going to tell me how he sees it to allow me to do my job better.

John Gibbon, everyone.

Yeah, I think that's a very solid choice.

One column, led by General George Crook, was attacked and forced to turn back at the Battle of the Rosebud.

The other two, under Colonel John Gibbon and General Alfred H. Terry, joined on the Yellowstone at the mouth of the Rosebud.

From here, Terry, the expedition's commander, laid plans to locate the Indians, then believed to be in the Little Bighorn Valley.

Taking Gibbon's column on up the Yellowstone to approach the valley from the north, Terry sent Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer and the 7th Cavalry on a wide sweep to the south to approach it from the opposite direction.

The movements of the various troop columns are shown on the map along with many of the places that figured prominently in the events leading to the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

side bar brig general george crook who commanded the department of the platte in eighteen seventy six had already helped to end indian wars in southern oregon idaho northern california and arizona he understood the indian way of life probably better than any other army officer and blamed most of the troubles on tardy and broken faith on the part of the general government his defeat at the battle of the rosebud on june seventeenth eighteen seventy six knocked his troops completely out of the campaign and may have contributed to custer's defeat at the little big horn Sidebar.

Colonel John Gibbon commanded the Montana column out of Fort Ellis.

A battle-scarred veteran of 34 years of military service, he was supposed to prevent the escape of the Indians that Custer's cavalry column would drive toward him.

One of those three columns was the one led by General Crook, and that one had been eliminated by Crazy Horse.

Another one was led by Colonel John Gibbon, who had been delayed and was not in the area at the time of the battle.

That left the third column by General Alfred Terry.

On June 22nd, Terry sent a scouting party ahead, which consisted of the same 7th Cavalry Regiment that first discovered gold in the Black Hills, once again commanded by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.

Meade and his subordinates get together and they vote to stay and fight it out.

But at the same time, Meade had also said before that meeting, I need to get the condition of my army before I'm going to determine if... my operations will be offensive or defensive so one of the things they do during that meeting besides voting to stay is they get the condition of the army and the army condition comes in it's something like 58 000 guys so you've got a significant reduction as they're leaving the meeting there's this famous quote that john gibbon attributes to mead along the lines of mead supposedly comes up to gibbon and says if they attack tomorrow it will be on your front Gibbons says, why do you say that? Meade allegedly says, because they have tried my flanks and they have failed.

And that's sort of a lot of people now have this, oh my God, George Meade has predicted the attack on the center.

But if you really look at the messaging, Meade is doing to Henry Halleck that night.

Well, kind of in that area, and in a lot of cases, north of Little Round Top, generally kind of in the area where the Sedgwick statue is today, north of Little Round Top and north of the Wheatfield Road.

So they come back.

The more now as we get into the afternoon in the left center, but it's still really the second core that's, you know, Gibbons' division specifically and Hayes' division that's obviously going to take the brunt of this attack.

Okay.