General Nelson Appleton Miles entered the military in 1861 at the age of
twenty-two, and by forty-one he was a brigadier general.  By 1895, he was
the commanding general of the U.S. Army.  Particularly successful in
dealing with the Indian wars from 1869 to 1886, he is pictured above
meeting with Sitting Bull shortly after General George Custer's defeat in
1876.  The crushing military losses at Little Bighorn redoubled the United
States' determination to campaign against the Sioux.  Using Fort Keogh on
the Yellowstone River as his base, General Miles pursued Sitting Bull and
Crazy Horse throughout the winter and spring of 1876.  By that October,
Miles's efforts had driven Sitting Bull into exile in Canada.