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"The key engagement in this successful campaign was George Armstrong Custer's surprise attack on Black Kettle's encampment along the Washita River, an attack that came at dawn after a forced march through a snowstorm. Many historians now regard this victory as a massacre, since Black Kettle was a peaceful chief whose encampment was on reservation soil, but for Sheridan the attack served its purpose, helping to persuade other bands to give up their traditional way of life and move onto the reservations."

Poor Black Kettle. He and his wife were shot in the back as they fled across the Washita. His camp just happened to be the one Custer ran into, some miles west of the main encampment. Black Kettle had also been at Sand Creek, flying an American Flag over his teepee. He had asked for peace, but Chivington, Sheridan, and Sherman did not want peace; they wanted annihlation of the Indians. Stan

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