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  • Battle of the Washita

    05/19/2006 11:15:56 AM PDT · by robowombat · 1 replies · 751+ views
    Carbine & Lance, The Story of Old Fort Sill, ^ | 1937 | Colonel Wilbur S. Nye
    The following story is from the book, Carbine & Lance, The Story of Old Fort Sill, by Colonel W. S. Nye; Copyright © 1937 by the University of Oklahoma Press. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Early in November Custer's Seventh Cavalry was ready to march south against the hostile Indians. The Nineteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, not being fully mobilized, was ordered to join Custer later, at the junction of Wolf Creek and Beaver Creek, in the northern part of Indian Territory. This was where General Sully's recent expedition had turned back from its pursuit of the Cheyennes. General Sheridan...