THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 881 



Except when engaged in war with Great Britain, Mexico, or during 

 the KebeHion (1860-1865), the United States Army was almost entirely 

 used for the Indian service, and stationed largely in the Indian country 

 or along the frontier. It will be fair to estimate, takiug out the years 

 of foreign wars with England, viz, 1812-1815, $66,614,912.34, and with 

 Mexico, 1846-1848, $73,941,735.12, and the Rebellion, 1861-1865, and re- 

 construction, 1865-1870, $3,374,359,360.02, that more than three-fourths 

 of the total expense of the Army is chargeable, directly or indirectly 

 to the Indians. (During our foreign wars, and the Rebellion as well, 

 many of the Indian tribes were at war with us and others were a con- 

 stant danger, a large force being necessary to hold them in subjection. 

 Still expense on this account is dropped from the estimate.) 



The total Army expense from March 4, 1789, to June 30, 1886, was 

 $4,559,419,924. Deducting $3,514,911,007.48 for foreign wars and the 

 Rebellion, the remainder is $1,044,508,916.52. 



Two-thirds of this sum, it is estimated, was expended for war and for 

 services incidental to the Indians, viz, $696,330,277.68 (fortifications, 

 posts, &c, being deducted). 



Total cost of the Indians to the United States. 



Indian department proper (as above), from July 7, 1776, to June 30, 

 1886 $232,900,006 34 



Expended by War Department, for Indian wars and incidental 

 thereto, from July 4, 1776, to June 30, 1886, as above (estimated).. 696, 339, 277 68 



Grand total of cost of Indians to the United States from July 4, 

 1776, to June 30, 1886 929,239,284 02 



or almost a thousand million dollars. 



In illustration that the Indian Army expenditure estimates are not 

 too high — 



March 4, 1882, the Secretary of War, under Senate resolution of Jan- 

 uary 24, 1882, asking the cost to the Government of Indian wars for ten 

 years past, or from 1872 to 1882, reported that it was $202,994,506. See 

 Senate Ex. Doc. No. 123, first session Forty-seventh Congress, March 

 6, 1882. 



Also see Senate Ex. Doc. No. 33, second session Forty -fifth Congress, 

 for cost of the Indian war of 1876-1877, and Senate Ex. Doc. No. 313, 

 part 2, second session Forty-fifth Congress, on same subject. 



Also see Senate Ex. Doc. No. 14, second session, Forty-fifth Congress, 

 giving expenses of the Nez Perce' wars. 



Also see Senate Ex. Doc. No. 15, third session Forty-sixth Congress, 

 for report on expenses of certain Indian wars — 1865-1879, 

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