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Sand Creek Massacre
Sand Creek Massacre: Silas Soule

  By Witnify Admin • August 20, 2015 Uncategorized
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On November 29, 1864, Captain Soule and his company were with the regiment at Sand Creek, Colorado. A fellow abolitionist, Colonel John Chivington ordered the cavalry to attack Black Kettle’s encampment of Cheyenne and Arapaho there. Soule saw that the Cheyenne were flying the Union flag as a sign of … Continue reading

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Sand Creek Massacre
Kit Carson on Sand Creek Massacre

  By Witnify Admin • August 20, 2015 Uncategorized
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“Jis to think of that dog Chivington and his dirty hounds, up thar at Sand Creek.  His men shot down squaws, and blew the brains out of little innocent children. You call sich soldiers Christians, do ye? And Indians savages? What der yer ‘spose our Heavenly Father, who made both … Continue reading