Kit Carson, sent by General Carleton to…

November 1864 CE

Kit Carson, sent by General Carleton to deal with the natives in western Texas in November 1864, leads an army of four hundred soldiers and Ute scouts to the Texas panhandle and captures an encampment from which the inhabitants had fled.

The Plains Apache fight in one of the largest battles of the American Indian Wars at the First Battle of Adobe Walls on November 25, 1864.

More than one thousand Comanche, Kiowa and Plains Apache attack him, led by Dohäsan.

Carson takes a position in an abandoned adobe building on top of a hill and repulses several attacks, supported by two mountain howitzers.

After a day of fighting, Carson retreats after burning a Kiowa village, and the Indians permit him to leave without opposition.

Iron Shirt, a Plains Apache chief, is killed in the battle.

Six soldiers are killed; the army estimates that the natives had suffered sixty killed and wounded.

Locations
Battle of Adobe Walls Hutchinson Texas United States View →

Groups
Ute (Amerind tribe) View → Kiowa people (Amerind tribe) View → Plains Apache, or Kiowa Apache; also Kiowa-Apache, Naʼisha, Naisha (Amerind tribe) View → Comanche (Amerind tribe) View → United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC) View → Texas, State of (U.S.A.) View →

Topics
Indian Wars in Upper North America View → Texas–Indian wars View → American Civil War & Reconstruction; 1864 through 1875 View →

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Conflict View → Mayhem View → Government View →

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