Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode.

The special signals unit was under the command of Captain W. His efforts to subdue the Sioux led to Sitting Bull's death and the massacre of about 300 Sioux. Legacy
Miles City Montana is named in his honor.

Nelson Appleton Miles (August 8 1839 – May 15 1925) was a United States soldier who served in the American Civil War Indian Wars and the Spanish-American War.