"The Fetterman Massacre; And The Official Reports" by Henry & Margaret Carrington is a first-hand look at the worst defeat of the U. S. Army by the Great Plains Indians up to that time.
Colonel Carrington (1824-1912) was a lawyer, professor, prolific author, and an officer in the US Army during the Civil War & on the Northern Great Plains during the Indian Wars. A noted engineer, he constructed a series of forts to protect the emigrants using the Bozeman Trail during the opening of the Wyoming Territory.
This book by Carrington & his first wife Margaret, is based on her daily journal kept at the suggestion of General Sherman, along with Carrington's records & Official Report, and with the Official Report by the Senate into the massacre. As the wife of the commander of Fort Phil Kearny, she experienced the sequence of events and the heightening of tensions that led to the bloody day in December 1866 when Captain William Fetterman & his entire reinforced company were lured into an ambush by famed Sioux Indian chief Red Cloud & wiped out. The so-called "Fetterman Massacre," caused by the captain's own recklessness, put Colonel Carrington's career at stake, in fact destroying it, by the army's subsequent need for a scapegoat.
An up close & personal look at the undaunted spirit of the soldiers of the US Army in one of the few struggles with the Plains Indians that the white soldiers lost.
A must read for the student of the final struggles between the Indian cultures of the Great Plains & the white settlers that overwhelmed them in the next decade.
There are approximately 15,700 words and approximately 52+ pages at 300 words per page in this e-book.
