After a terrible summer of blood and fire, scout Seamus Donegan finally has reason to rejoice: his wife, Samantha, has given birth to his first son. But the time to celebrate new life is short...for the old business of death continues. Phil Sheridan has gathered his officers at Fort Laramie for a war council to prepare the winter campaign. His objective: capture Crazy Horse, the elusive Sioux warrior chief whose exploits have put the U.S. cavalry to shame. Sending his scouts ahead -- men such as Seamus Donegan and the legendary Yellowstone Kelly -- Sheridan will march his armies north into the valley of the Red Fork of the Crazy Woman Creek...and into a battle that will prove as brutal and bitter as the killing winter winds.
Last Bull “Ledger”: Facing soldiers at Powder River Fight
Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie in the mid-1870s
High Bull “Victory Roster”: Little Sun striking two Shoshone: roster captured from Sgt. Brown, 7th U.S. Cavalry, at the Little Bighorn
BOOKS BY TERRY C. JOHNSTON
SONS OF THE PLAINS NOVELS
THE PLAINSMEN NOVELS
Cast of Characters
Lieutenant General Philip H. Sheridan—Division of the Missouri
Brigadier General George C. Crook—Department of the Platte
Colonel William B. Hazen—commanding Sixth U.S. Infantry, Fort Buford, D.T.
Colonel Nelson A. Miles—commanding Fifth U.S. Infantry, Tongue River Cantonment, M.T.
Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie—Fourth U.S. Cavalry, commanding cavalry wing, Powder River Expedition (brevet BRIGADIER GENERAL)
Colonel Richard I. Dodge—Twenty-third Infantry, commanding infantry wing, Powder River Expedition
Lieutenant Colonel Elwell S. Otis—Twenty-second U.S. Infantry (brevet BRIGADIER GENERAL)
Lieutenant Colonel William P. Carlin—commandant at Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, D.T., Seventeenth U.S. Infantry
Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Whistler—Fifth U.S. Infantry
Major George A. Gordon—Fifth U.S. Cavalry (Camp Robinson) (brevet COLONEL)
Major Caleb H. Carlton—Third U.S. Cavalry, commanding at Fort Fetterman (brevet COLONEL)
Major Edwin F. Townsend—Commanding Officer, Fort Laramie, W.T. (brevet COLONEL)
Captain Andrew S. Burt—H Company, Ninth U.S. Infantry
Captain Charles W. Miner—G Company, Twenty-second U.S. Infantry
Captain Malcolm McArthur—C Company, Seventeenth U.S. Infantry
Captain Louis H. Sanger—G Company, Seventeenth U.S. Infantry (brevet MAJOR)
Captain Mott Hooton—H Company, Twenty-second U.S. Infantry
Captain Augustus Randall—Quartermaster, Fifth U.S. Infantry, Tongue River Cantonment, M.T.
Captain Wyllys Lyman—I Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry
Captain James S. Casey—A Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry (brevet MAJOR)
Captain Andrew S. Bennett—B Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry
Captain Edmond Butler—C Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry
Captain Simon Snyder—F Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry
Captain Clarence B. Mauck—Fourth U.S. Cavalry (brevet MAJOR)
Captain Alfred B. Taylor—Troop L., Fifth U.S. Cavalry
Captain George M. (“Black Jack”) Randall—Chief of Scouts, Powder River Campaign Twenty-third Infantry (brevet MAJOR)
Captain John Lee—D Troop, Fourth U.S. Cavalry
Captain Wirt Davis—F Troop, Fourth U.S. Cavalry
Captain William C. Hemphill—I Troop, Fourth U.S. Cavalry
Captain Henry W. Wessels—H Troop, Third U.S. Cavalry
Captain Gerald Russell—K Troop, Third U.S. Cavalry
Captain John M. Hamilton—H Troop, Fifth U.S. Cavalry
Captain James “Teddy” Egan—K Troop, Second U.S. Cavalry
Captain J. B. Campbell—Fourth U.S. Artillery battalion commander (brevet MAJOR)
Captain John V. Furey—quartermaster, Powder River Expedition
Captain Edwin Pollock—Ninth U.S. Infantry, commander of Reno Cantonment (brevet MAJOR)
First Lieutenant John Bourke—Acting Assistant Adjutant General for Expedition
