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Anniversary Recollections of Fetterman Massacre at Fort Kearney
A fifty year retrospective recalls the December 21 1866 Fetterman massacre near Sheridan Wyoming. Brigadier General Carrington commanded Fort Phil Kearny duty and Fort Reno guarding the Bozeman Trail. Fetterman Brown and 47 men died after disobeying orders leading to a catastrophic battle with Sioux forces.
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Fort Kearney
Fetterman
Eighteenth
United States Infantry
Second
United States Cavalry
W. J. Fetterman
Connecticut
Henry B. Carrington
Wallingford
Yale
Custer
Rocky Mountains
100Th Meridian
Red Man
Union Pacific
Wyoming
Montana
Fort Laramie
Red Cloud
Carrington
Bozeman Trail
Laramie
Yale College
Yale Law School
Ohio
Regular Infantry
Mountain District
Fort Reno
Fort la Teme
Big Horn Mountains
Bis Horn River
Powder River
Big Horn Range
Seige
Fort
Phil Kearney
Big Horn
C. F. Smith
Yellowstone
Andrew Johnson
Congress
Frederick H. Brown
Brown
Eighteenth Infantry
Second Cavalry
Lodge Trail Bridge
G. W. Grummond
Wheatley
Fisher
Grummond
Hines
Ten Eyck
Eyck
Garrington
Henry
Washington