The Indian agent at Fort Laramie negotiates…

1857 CE

The Indian agent at Fort Laramie negotiates with the Cheyenne to reduce hostilities, but the Secretary of War orders the 1st Cavalry Regiment, formed two years earlier, to carry out a punitive expedition under the command of Colonel Edwin V. Sumner.

He rides against the Cheyenne in the spring of 1857.

Major John Sedgwick leads part of the expedition up the Arkansas River, and via Fountain Creek to the South Platte River.

Sumner's command rides west along the North Platte to Fort Laramie, then down along the Front Range to the South Platte.

The combined force of four hundred troopers travel east through the plains searching for Cheyenne.

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Edwin Vose Sumner View → J.E.B. Stuart View → John Sedgwick View →

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Cheyenne people (Amerind tribe) View → United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC) View → Nebraska, Territory of (U.S.A.) View →

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Indian Wars in Upper North America View →

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