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[1984], c1962
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The Fetterman Massacre occurred on December 21, 1866, at Fort Phil Kearny, a small outpost in the foothills of the Big Horns. The second battle in American history from which came no survivors, it became a cause célèbre and was the subject of a congressional investigation.
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Fort Phil Kearny, a small outpost in the foothills of the Little Big Horns, was the scene of the Fetterman Massacre on December 21, 1866. Part of Red Cloud's War, it pitted Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho forces against the United States Army. The second battle in American history from which came no survivors, it became a cause célèbre and was investigated by Congress. This book, based on Army records and first-hand reports, attempts to give a comprehensive...
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c2008
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"With eighty men I could ride through the entire Sioux nation." The story of the Fetterman Fight, near Fort Phil Kearney in present-day Wyoming in 1866, is based entirely on this infamous declaration attributed to Capt. William J. Fetterman. Historical accounts cite this statement in support of the premise that bravado and contempt for the fort's commander, Col. Henry B. Carrington, compelled Fetterman to disobey direct orders from Carrington and...
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©2017.
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The Fetterman Fight ranks among the most crushing defeats suffered by the U.S. Army in the nineteenth-century West. On December 21, 1866 -- during Red Cloud's War (1866-1868) -- a well-organized force of 1,500 to 2,000 Oglala Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors annihilated a detachment of seventy-nine infantry and cavalry soldiers, among them Captain William Judd Fetterman, and two civilian contractors. With no survivors on the U.S. side,...
