Colonel Nelson Miles led a column south from Camp Supply in Indian Territory.

Lieutenant Colonel John Davidson moved a column west from Fort Sill.

Major William Price moved a column east from New Mexico.

Lieutenant Colonel George Buell moved a column north from Fort Griffin.

Colonel Ranald S.

Mackenzie led the southernmost column north from Fort Concho, Texas.

The strategy was brutal in its conception and effective in its application.

No single column had to defeat the off-reservation peoples in a set-piece battle.