Every time I have ever looked into Sand Creek, it always looked like Chivington and his drunken Colorado guys were on their own crazy massacre in the Colorado territory,
Chivington was forced to resign from the militia, and was banned from Colorado politics, politics which had always been his purpose.
I don’t disagree. It is notable that it is very easy to find detailed accounts of the Sand Creek Massacre.
Much more difficult to find detailed accounts of the Indian raids and accompanying atrocities that had caused the CO militia to be so angry.
At Sand Creek all the militia guys did was respond in muted kind to Indian atrocities. It was wrong, but not by Indian standards. By ours.
I’m always amused by Indian activists who get such a charge out of recounting what happened at SC, when all the soldiers did there was imitate the Indians, in a somewhat pallid way.