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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N7F_the-band_Banner-WY.html
The 18th Infantry's 40-piece Regimental Band was housed at Fort Phil Kearny in a 24 by 64 green log, panel constructed, dirt roofed barrack. The band provided drummers and buglers for drill, ceremony, and combat commands during the day. In the eve…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N7B_the-sutlers-store_Banner-WY.html
Even the most remote of frontier posts could not do without its Sutler Store. Fort Phil Kearny's was established and built by John Kinney in partnership with others, including one Fenn Burnett. The building was 24 by 64 feet and constructed in a c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N4T_the-bozeman-trail-1863-1868_Banner-WY.html
The Bozeman Trail was established in 1863 by John Bozeman and John Jacobs as a shortcut to the Montana goldfields. It started from Virginia City, at Adler Gulch, in Montana, heading southward across Wyoming and the Powder River country where it ju…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N4S_as-an-infantryman_Banner-WY.html
. . . you are part of a detail formed this morning consisting of 49 men from companies A, C, E, and H of the 18th Infantry Regiment, you are told you will relieve a wood train under attack on Sullivan Hill for the third time in three weeks. On De…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N4R_during-your-advance_Banner-WY.html
. . . you are joined by 27 more soldiers of Company C, 2nd U.S. Cavalry, under the command of Lt. George Grummond. Captain Fred Brown and two civilian volunteers, James Wheatley and Isaac Fisher, also join up.Your detail heads up Piney Creek to c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N4Q_as-a-cavalryman_Banner-WY.html
. . . you dress lightly because the weather is clear. You are carrying your recently issued seven shot Spencer repeater and a saber. Lt. Grummond will command and he carries a saber and revolver. Wheatley and Fisher, who are with you, carry 15 sh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N4P_as-the-attack-continues_Banner-WY.html
. . . the command retreats up the hill to this point, stopping only once or twice to fire at the pursuing warriors. Civilians Wheatley and Fisher, along with some non-commissioned officers, are making a stand 250 yards to the north, slowing the a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N4O_big-nose_Banner-WY.html
. . . one of the Cheyenne members of the decoy party, is with you. He is riding a black horse belonging to Little Wolf, his brother, and is wearing Sweet Medicine Chief's scalp shirt. His horse, tired from decoying the soldiers, stumbles during t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N4N_corporal-adolph-metzger_Banner-WY.html
. . . like you, will die today. History will record that he is of German descent and a combat veteran of the Civil War and Plains Indian Wars. Two weeks ago, on December 6th, he helped Col. Carrington rescue Lt. Grummond from certain death. Today…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N4M_as-a-plains-indian_Banner-WY.html
. . . your preparations for the battle began two weeks ago when some leaders, including Red Leaf, High Back Bone and Black Leg, determined that the soldiers from the Buffalo Creek Fort could be ambushed.At your main camp on the Tongue River two d…