Kidder massacre

Kidder massacre

The Kidder Massacre of 29 June, 1867 refers to the killing of a Lyman Kidder along with an Indian scout and ten enlisted men in Sherman County, Kansas. They were ordered to take dispatches from General William Sherman to General George A. Custer, who was camped on the Republican River in Nebraska, but failed to arrive.

On 12 July, Custer's scout, Will Comstock, found the mutilated bodies of the Kidder party just north of the banks of the Beaver River in northern Sherman County, Kansas. It was later proposed that the men were killed by a war party of Cheyenne and Sioux warriors.

The term "massacre" was applied loosely and with bias at the time and by modern standards this would not be called a massacre since the parties involved were in a state of conflict and the dead were armed combatants.

External links

* [http://www.goodlandnet.com/history/kidder.htm "Kidder Massacre" in which 11 soldiers of the 2nd Cavalry and an Indian Guide were killed July 2, 1867 at Beaver Creek, Sherman County Kansas by Cheyenne & Sioux. {for Reference only} list of the fallen]

ee also

*Indian massacres


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