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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…
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. . . 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…
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. . . the soldiers from Peno Creek. They retreat south up the hill along their road. A small group of them stop among some rocks to the north. Their fast shooting guns slow the attack, causing many casualties.The remaining soldiers retreat to thi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N4J_in-the-end_Banner-WY.html
. . . the soldiers are surrounded and defeated. You begin gathering used arrows, soldier weapons, loose horses and tending your injured. Some warriors were hit by accident when warriors attacked from both sides of the trail.Other warriors strip a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N4I_the-discoveries_Banner-WY.html
Upon hearing rifle volleys north of Lodge Trail Ridge, Col. Carrington sent Captain Tenodor Ten Eyck with a relief column of 75 men to assist Fetterman.After the battle, Ten Eyck's testimony described the discovery of a valley full of Indians in w…
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The average age of an enlisted man in the United States Army was twenty-three years old. Although Fetterman's command included veterans of the Civil War, many of the men were inexperienced in Indian warfare and had limited training with their weap…