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Tragic Fetterman Battle at Fort Phil Kearney Memory
This account recounts the December 21 1866 disaster at Fort Phil Kearney near present Wyoming in which Captain Fetterman and 80 soldiers died after disobeying orders and pursuing Sioux led by Red Cloud. It notes the siege by 2000 Sioux, the hospital build, and the grisly discovery of 49 and 32 slain men with arrows and blunt weapons.
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Fort Phil Kearney
Fetterman
18Th
U. S. Infantry
U. S Cavalry
WM. J. Fettberman
Red Cloud
United States
Montana
Big Horn Mountains
Platte River
Washington
Fort Laramie
Henry B. Carrington
Colonel Carrington
Fort Reno
Bozeman Trail
Crazy Woman’s Fork
Wyoming
Fort
Phil Kearney
C. F. Smith
Bingham
Bowers
Andrew Johnson
Congress
Northwest
Col
Carrington
Col. Carrington
Brown
Pilot Hill
Pinery
Wheatley
Fisher
Lodge Trail Ridge
Fetternin
Peno Valley
Corral
Hines
Tenodore Ten Eyck
Ten Eyck
Ten Buck
Bozeman Road
American Horse
Fine Ridge Reservation
South Dakota
James H. Cook
Cloud
Capt
Capt. Cook
Pine Ridge
Portugee
John Phillips
Paul Revere