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John Milton Chivington (January 27, 1821 – October 4, 1894) was a Methodist pastor and Mason who served as a colonel in the United States Volunteers during the New ...
The Sand Creek massacre (also known as the Chivington massacre, the battle of Sand Creek or the massacre of Cheyenne Indians) was a massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the U.S. Army in the American Indian Wars that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 675-man force of the Third Colorado Cavalry [5] under the command of U.S. Volunteers Colonel John Chivington attacked and destroyed a ...
Colonel George L. Shoup Colonel John M. Chivington (as District commander) Military unit The 3rd Colorado Cavalry Regiment was a Union Army unit formed in the mid-1860s when increased traffic on the United States emigrant trails and settler encroachment resulted in numerous attacks against them by the Cheyenne and Arapaho .
Chivington is an unincorporated community in Kiowa County, Colorado, United States. [1] The Chivington post office operated from October 24, 1887, until January 1, 1991. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The U.S. Post Office at Eads ( ZIP Code 81036) now serves Chivington postal addresses.
Initial reports of the battle were taken as a victory among the American public, but as details came out, opinions changed. A subsequent Congressional investigation resulted in a scorching castigation of the event, Colonel John Chivington, and the 1st Colorado Cavalry Regiment.
In April 1864, John Evans, the territorial governor, called for Colonel John Chivington, commander of the 1st Regiment of Colorado Volunteers to "kill Cheyenne wherever or whenever found," without determining whether or not they were guilty. The cavalry killed innocent women, children, and men, which resulted in retaliatory raids against ...
John Chivington, commander of the 3rd Colorado Cavalry at the Sand Creek Massacre. The territory's first governor, William Gilpin , organized the 1st Colorado Infantry in August 1861. Nicknamed "Gilpin's Pet Lambs" because of the governor's involvement in their organization, the regiment and its first commander, John P. Slough , marched to ...
Templeton attributed White Antelope's killing to another private. John Smith, also with Chivington, wrote that White Antelope was the first to be killed in the massacre. [23] Other accounts, including that of George Bent, offer different accounts of White Antelope's death, establishing him as having been an advocate of peace. Bent writes that ...