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Chapter XXVII
President of the New board of Ordnance and Fortification
usefulness of the board
troubles with the Sioux Indians in 1890-91
success of the plan to employ Indians as soldiers
marriage to Miss Kilbourne
the difficulty with Chile in 1892.
even as late as the year 1882, very high military authority in this country advocated with great earnestness the proposition that our old brick and stone forts, with their smooth-bore guns, could make a successful defense against u of those to which they had been accustomed, proved inadequate.
This caused the spirit of discontent to increase and to become general among all ages.
The natural result was such a threat of war from the great Sioux nation in the winter of 1890-91 as to necessitate the concentration of quite a large army to meet the danger of a general outbreak.
In the course of military operations, accidents rather than design on either side occasioned some serious collisions between the troops and the Ind