Sioux War Dispatches: Reports from the Field, 1876-1877 by Marc H. Abrams

Errata & Addendum Sheet

 

p. 39

Dr. Munn’s first name was Curtis.

 

p. 238 (bottom of left column & top of right column)

According to Scout Jack Crawford and Lieutenant John G. Bourke, this chase of Indian warriors occurred on September 5, not on September 6.

 

p. 260 (right column)

Davenport may not have left the Black Hills with General Crook at this time. There is a chance he remained in Custer City for a few more weeks. An unsigned dispatch dated October 13 from “Near Custer City” appeared in the New York Herald on October 15. If this dispatch was from Davenport, then he was still in the Black Hills.

 

p. 360 / note 26

The “unknown correspondent” mentioned in the second line was John F. Finerty of the Chicago Times.

 

p. 364 / note 5 & p. 365 / note 29

I have since confirmed that “Frontier” was the pseudonym used by Lieutenant James Calhoun, Seventh Cavalry, in his dispatches to the New York Daily Graphic.

 

p. 386 / note 25

This should read “Jack Crawford” instead of Reuben Davenport.