In early October 1877, just south of the Canadian border in the Montana Territory, a detachment of the U.S. Army, commanded by Gen. Nelson A. Miles, had surrounded a band of Nez Perce led by Chief Joseph and forced them to surrender. The general wrote in his memoirs on Oct. 4.
“Those who surrendered with Chief Joseph and those taken outside the camp numbered more than four hundred. There were killed twenty-six in all, and forty-six were wounded.
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