In my proper character, an officer of the United States army.

Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.

I was informed... that some... were dreaming and wished to return.

They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.

He was a man, that he always performed his promises, that he had never said he would return.

Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?

It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people.