Remarks on Return of Company F, Second Cavalry, Febuary, 1866.

Left Castle Rock, Nevada, with Major Smith's command on February nineteenth, in pursuit of Indians. Discovered the Indian camp after traveling five days in a northeast course, eighty miles from Fort Bidwell, Cal., at Rock Canon, Guano Valley, Nev. The attack on the Indian camp was made at 9:30 o'clock, A.M. on the morning of the fifteenth, the fight continuing till 3:30 o'clock P.M. As the troops charged on the camp the Indians retreated to Rock Canon and Bluff. The chief, Smoke Creek Jim, was killed at the commencement of one hundred and thirty miles.