Colonel Cole had left Omaha on July…

August 1865 CE

Colonel Cole had left Omaha on July 1 with his fourteen hundred men and one hundred and forty wagon-loads of supplies.

Following the Loup River upstream, they had gone cross country to Bear Butte, near present day Sturgis, South Dakota, arriving there on August 13.

Cole hadn't see a single native during the five hundred and sixty-mile (nine hundred kilometer-) march, but his command had suffered from thirst, diminishing supplies, and near mutinies.

Colonel Walker and his six hundred men had left Fort Laramie on August 6 and meet up with Cole on August 19 near the Black Hills.

He had likewise encountered no natives and had suffered from shortages of water.

The two columns march separately, but remain in contact as they move westward to the Powder River.

By this time the men are barefoot and horses and mules are dying—and they have still not encountered any natives.

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