Brig Gen. Alfred Terry held a conference of war aboard the steamboat the Far West. They determined to use a pincer strategy and divide their forces in order to locate and subdue the Sioux and Cheyenne in the field, with one column under Lt. Col. George A. Custer and another under Terry.
Custer was to go up Rosebud Creek to track a village known to be somewhere in the area. It was not known that George Crook had just encountered the same native band, and had been turned back.
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