The severe weather made an attempted winter campaign against the Indians unsuccessful, and there was no important fighting until summer. On August 2, 1867, the Indians again attacked a woodcutting party near Fort Phil Kearny, but the small detachment led by Captain Powell was armed with the new 1866 Springfield breech-loading rifles and fought off repeated charges by the Indians in the famous Wagon Box Fight. [Illustration: FORT LARAMIE GENERAL PLAN (FROM AN OLD MAP) 1867 APRIL 1954 NM-LAR-7004] INDIAN LODGES OFFICERS’ STABLES HOSPITAL GRAVE YARD CAVALRY STABLES PROVOST MARSHALL OFFICERS’ QUARTERS MAGAZINE CAMP SHOP SUTLER’S STORE SUTLER’S RESIDENCE BAKERY BARRACKS ICE HOUSE BARRACKS PARADE COMMANDING OFFICER’S QUARTERS ADJUTANT’S OFFICE ICE HOUSE BAND ROOM BARRACKS BARRACKS GUARD HOUSE Q.M. STORE HOUSE POST OFFICE CARPENTERS’ COMM. OFFICE COMMISSARY STORE HOUSE MILL YARD STORE HOUSE Q.M. OFFICE LUMBER, CORN PILE LAUNDRESSES SADLERS’ Q.M. QUARTERS SMITH’S SHOP HORSE SHED CORRAL TEAMSTERS’ QUARTERS HAY YARD WOOD YARD CORRAL FOOT BRIDGE BROWN’S HOTEL _The Treaty of 1868_ Again, the peace advocates in Washington were in the ascendancy, and in the summer of 1867 the Congress provided a commission to treat with the Indians, but authorized recruiting an army of 4,000 men if peace was not attained. Treaties with the southern tribes were concluded at Fort Larned in October, and the commissioners came to Fort Laramie in November to treat with the northern tribes. However, few came in and the hostiles, led by Red Cloud, sent word that no treaty was possible until the forts on the Bozeman Trail and in the valley of the Powder River were abandoned to the Indians. They did agree to cease hostilities and to come to Fort Laramie the next spring. In April 1868, the commissioners came again to Fort Laramie and were prepared to grant the Indians’ demands, including abandonment of the Bozeman Trail. By late May, both the Brule and Oglala Sioux had signed the treaty, but Red Cloud refused to sign until the troops had left the Powder River country and his warriors had burned the abandoned Fort Phil Kearny to the ground. [Illustration: _The Peace Commissioners in council with Indians at Fort Laramie in 1868._ From a photograph by Alexander Gardner in the Newberry Library.] [Illustration: _Indians at the North Platte Ferry in 1868._ From a photograph by Alexander Gardner in the Newberry Library.] [Illustration: _Dress parade at Fort Laramie in 1868. Note “Old Bedlam” at the extreme right._ From a photograph by Alexander Gardner in the Newberry Library.]