Lieutenant Lyman Kidder's party, made up of…

July 1867 CE

Lieutenant Lyman Kidder's party, made up of ten troopers and one scout, are massacred while in route to Fort Wallace on June 26, 1867.

Lieutenant Kidder was to deliver dispatches to Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer from General William Sherman, but his party had been attacked by Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne.

Custer and a search party will find the bodies of Kidder's patrol days later.

Custer had been appointed lieutenant colonel of the newly created U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment, headquartered at Fort Riley, Kansas

As a result of a plea by his patron General Philip Sheridan, Custer has also been appointed brevet major general.

He takes part in Major General Winfield Scott Hancock's expedition against the Cheyenne in 1867.

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Goodland Sherman Kansas United States View →

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Black Kettle View → George Armstrong Custer View → Philip Sheridan View → William Tecumseh Sherman View →

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Lakota, aka Teton Sioux (Amerind tribe) View → Cheyenne people (Amerind tribe) View → United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC) View → Indian Territory View → Kansas, State of (U.S.A.) View →

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Indian Wars in Upper North America View → Sioux Wars View → American Civil War & Reconstruction; 1864 through 1875 View → Kidder massacre View →

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