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Fetterman Massacre Memorial

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On this field on the 21st day of December, 1866, three commissioned officers and seventy six privates of the 18th U.S. Infantry, and of the 2nd U.S. Cavalry, and four civilians, under the command of Captain Brevet-Lieutenant Colonel William J. Fetterman, were killed by an overwhelming force of Sioux under the command of Red Cloud. There were no survivors.
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