xxviii INTR OD UCTION. 



2. "The Sand-Creek or Chivington's massacre of In- 

 dians, which took place on November 29, 1864, when 

 about 130 of the Cheyennes (principally women and 

 children) were killed at Sand Creek, on the Little Ar- 

 kansas Eiver, by a large body of men under Colonel 

 Chivington and Major Anthony. 



3. Fetterman's massacre, which occurred on Decem- 

 ber 21, 1866, near Fort Phil Kearney, and resulted in the 

 annihilation, by some of the Sioux Indians, under their 

 celebrated chiefs, ' Eed Cloud ' and ' Eed Dog,' of Colonel 

 Fetterman's command, consisting of 80 men and several 

 officers. Colonel Fetterman and his men were led into 

 an ambuscade, and not one was left to tell the tale of 

 their slaughter by the Indians. 



4. The Indian war with the Cheyennes, Arrapahoes, 

 some of the Brule and Ogallalla Sioux Indians, and Kiowas 

 and Comanches in the autumn of 1868. 



The principal events of this war was Colonel For- 

 syth's fight in September on the Arickara Fork of the 

 Eepublican Eiver, when with 51 scouts he succeeded in 

 maintaining his position for eight days against the attacks 

 of from 800 to 1,000 Indians under ' Eoman Nose,' until 

 his force was relieved by troops sent from Fort Wallace. 

 Of the 51 men engaged in this fight 23 were either 

 killed or wounded, Lieutenant Beecher and Surgeon 

 Movers being amongst the killed, whilst Colonel Forsyth 

 was seriously wounded. 



And the battle of Washita, on December 23, 1868, 

 when the United States troops, under the late General 

 Custer, captured and destroyed the united winter camp 

 of the Cheyennes under ' Black Kettle,' of the Arrapahoes 

 under ' Little Eaven,' and the Kiowas and Comanches 

 under ; Satanta,' ' Satanka,' and * Lone Wolf.' The result 

 of this fight was 103 warriors left on the ground, and the 

 capture of a large number of prisoners, together with 875 



