We are called upon to reduce the Army and to repeat the fearful experiences of the past. The Modoc war. the Sitting Bull campaigns. and the late Nez Pored war have harassed the frontier and excited the public mind. They have affected the different sections in which they ensued most injuriously by creating a sense of insecurity and preventing immigration. In these wars on the western and northern frontier. from the most accurate official data I can obtain. from 1866 to 1877. there were 658 officers and soldiers killed and wounded by Indians. The killed average about 2 to 1 more than the wounded.
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