The United States Army launches a second,…

The United States Army launches a second, much larger campaign against the Sioux and Cheyenne in the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory in the late spring of 1876.

From Fort Abraham Lincoln on the east bank of the Missouri River marches the Dakota Column, commanded by General Terry, with fifteen companies or about five hundred and seventy men, including Colonel George Armstrong Custer and all twelve companies of the Seventh Cavalry.