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'1'o General Gillam - "It is absolutely impossible to connect our<br />
lett w1 th Green's right, we are separated by a deep chasm held by'<br />
the Modocs, we cannot cross it without great loss ot lite. It we<br />
join our right with yo'ur lett and move directly south, we can find<br />
whether or not the modocs have tled. Colonel Green is here and<br />
sanctions this plan". ll'rom this dispatch it appears that although<br />
the Modocs held a deep chasm there was a doubt as to "whether or<br />
not they had fled". I at once replied "I sanction the moTement<br />
suggested by Col. Green and yourself, execute it at once". I<br />
ordered this movement in the hope that the troops once engaged would<br />
drive the Modocs south, where they would come on captain !41.ller' s<br />
command, but it resulted in no mterial advantage merely shutting<br />
ott the Indians trom the water.<br />
'l'h.e troops on the west ot the Modoc pos1 tion having been engaged<br />
all day, and gained a position in the iiiiD.ediate vicinity ot the<br />
:Modocs, bivouacked tor the night. 'rhose on the east side occupied<br />
about the same position as the night previous, the right having<br />
joined Major Green• s lett without opposition. On the retum ot<br />
Major Green I asked him it he did not still believe the mvement to<br />
join his right to Major Mason • s lett was practicable it Major !6ason<br />
would make: a vivorous attack, he answered in the attil'IDB.tive, but<br />
stated the attack •s so strenuously opposed by Major Mason and<br />
Captain Bernard, 1st Ca.v, (the two senior otticers on that side)<br />
that he thought it advisable under the circumstances to agree to<br />
their plan. I have no doubt on the subject, and the attack would<br />
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