The Cheyenne plan and carry out an…
February 1865 CE
The Cheyenne plan and carry out an attack with about one thousand warriors on Camp Rankin, a stage station and fort at Julesburg, in January 1865.
The warriors make numerous raids along the South Platte, both east and west of Julesburg, and raid the fort again in early February.
They capture much loot and kill many European Americans.
Most of the raiders move north into Nebraska on their way to the Black Hills and the Powder River.
Black Kettle continues to desire peace.
He does not join in the second raid or in the plan to go north to the Powder River country.
He leaves the large camp and returns with eighty lodges of his tribesmen to the Arkansas River, where he intends to seek peace with the United States.
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