I ordered the Indians who surrendered at Laramie to be sent to
Kearney. Colonel Moonlight sent them without first dismounting them,
under charge of two companies of Seventh Iowa Cavalry. They revolted
sixty miles this side of Laramie, killing Captain Fouts, who was in
command, and four soldiers, and wounding seven; also killed four of
their own chiefs who refused to join them; fifteen Indians were
killed; the Indians fled north with their ponies, women, and children,
leaving all their camp equipage. Troops are in pursuit. Mail-stages
have stopped west of Camp Collins. Everything appears to work
unfavorably owing to failure of corn contractors and incompetency of
some of my subordinates. I will overcome all obstacles, however, in a
short time. Have you sent me cavalry yet? J. D. Doty, Governor of
Utah, was buried at Camp Douglas Cemetery this morning. Died of heart
disease.

P. E. CONNOR,
_Brigadier-General_.

During July, a band of the Arapahoes raided the South Platte River
stage-line between Fort Collins and Fort Halleck, drove off most of the
stock from the stations, and committed other depredations. Colonel Porter,
who was in command of that district, concentrated his force and went after
the Indians, and in a very few days restored the stage stations and gave
the Indians sound whippings, which kept that line clear nearly all summer.
The Indians that had done this work had gone into Fort Collins claiming to
be friendly and wishing to make a treaty, and after being fed there for
some time, left one night and committed the depredations before troops
could stop them. From here they moved immediately north to join the
hostile Indians north of the North Platte. I had received notice from
Washington that the Interior Department had information that these Indians
were peaceable and would not join in the campaigns; but, being on the
ground, I knew better, because we were capturing them in nearly all of the
attacks that they made. With them was a portion of one of the bands of the
Sioux.

On July 27, ten miles west of the North Platte Bridge station, a Mormon
train coming east was attacked by the Indians and Lieutenant Casper W.
Collins, of the Eleventh Ohio, and twenty-five men of the Eleventh Kansas,
went out to relieve it, when about one thousand Indians attacked him.
While he saved the train he lost his own life, and twenty-five of his men
were scalped and t