The Cheyenne, under the influence of the…
1857 CE
They had been told that if they dipped their hands in a nearby spring, they had only to raise their hands to repel army bullets.
Hands raised, the Cheyenne surround the advancing troops as they advance near the Solomon River.
Sumner orders a cavalry charge and the troops charge with drawn sabers; the Cheyenne flee.
With tired horses after long marches, the cavalry cannot engage more than a few Cheyenne, as their horses are fresh.
This is the first battle which the Cheyenne fight against the U.S. Army.
Casualties are few on each side; J.E.B. Stuart, at this time a young lieutenant, is shot in the breast while attacking a Cheyenne warrior with a sabre.
The troops continue on and two days later burn a hastily abandoned Cheyenne camp; they destroy lodges and the winter supply of buffalo meat
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