There were old men at Sand Creek - the warriors were elsewhere. A couple of the militia groups refused the order to attack. It was a massacre, no matter how some spin it.
There were old men at Sand Creek - the warriors were elsewhere.
Don’t give me that nonsense! It was the fall of the year, their larders were full, all huntable buffalo were down in the panhandle of Texas, and the Indians wanted peace because it was not convenient for war during the winter when they could mooch off the US Army till the next spring when they could go on the warpath again!
Scalps, scalps scalps! White men and women, found in the camp.
read L Captain Ware’s account in THE INDIAN WAR OF 1864, And Dunn’s MASSACRES OF THE MOUNTAINS.