Efforts to make a wider peace continue,…

May 1864 CE

Efforts to make a wider peace continue, but in the spring of 1864, Governor Evans and Colonel Chivington begin a series of attacks on natives camping or hunting on the plains, killing them on sight and initiating the Colorado War.

Chivington "ordered troops to find and 'chastise' the 'Indians'.

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Indian Wars in Upper North America View → Colorado War View → American Civil War & Reconstruction; 1864 through 1875 View → Sand Creek Massacre (Chivington Massacre) View →

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