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End of Heroic Ride Halts Fort Laramie Christmas Ball
December 25, 1866 marks the Fetterman relief run and the halt of a gay Christmas ball at Fort Laramie after Portugee Phillips delivers vital dispatches through a blizzard to request reinforcements. Carrington’s command celebrates when reinforcements arrive, while Phillips later faces ingratitude and neglect before official recognition in 1899.
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Old Fort Laramie
Elmo Scott Watson
Western Newspaper Union
Fort Laramie
Oregon Trail
Bedlam
Budalo
Fetterman
Phil Kearney
Gion
Phillips
Annals of America
Paul Revere
Phil Sheridan
Carrington
Horseshoe Creek
Laramie
John Phillips
Portugue
Weiting
Mrs. Grummond
John Philliss
Tam
Fort Reno
T Hem
Fort Beng
H. W. Wessels
Eighteenth Infantry
Reno
Phillins
Horseshoe Creek Station
Omaha
Wessels
Heno- Bar
Colonel Carrington
Carringtons
Laremie
Fay Pelt
Portugee
Wyoming
Fort Phil Kearney
Court of Claims
Pacific Coast
United States
Chefense
F. E. Warren
F. W. Mondeil
John