![]() ![]() Reno arrived on December 27th, delivering mail from the Department of the Platte Headquarters in Omaha. 21st, the garrison turned its attention to the basic survival warmth and food, and to routine military duties, including maintaining a vigilant watch.Ī small detachment from Ft. Gradually, fears that the garrison would be overrun began to subside. Nor did those remaining inside the stockade know that Portugee Phillips and the other riders indeed had gotten through, and that Phillips went all the way to Fort Laramie, dramatically bursting into the ballroom at “Old Bedlam” during the Christmas night ball, surviving an epic ride. The Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho were focusing on riding out the winter. Inside the fort, no one could know that the warriors had no interest in more fighting that winter, and so were reasonably comfortable in their winter camps, content with their victory in “The Battle of the Hundred in the Hand”. Would the warriors return to annihilate the remainder of the troops, civilians, women and children? How soon? Once the weather broke? Did those who rode from the fort into the teeth of the blizzard arrive at Horseshoe Station to send the telegram? Did it get through, or were the lines down? Would help arrive in time? Fear of an imminent attack hung over the garrison like a storm cloud black, ominous and frightening. 22, and the grisly task of identification and burial began. It was refreshed and deepened when the remaining bodies were brought in the next day, Dec. The Fetterman disaster trauma did not disappear with the dawning of a new day. All this does not approximate the whole truth”.1 Punctures upon every sensitive part of the body, even to the sole of the feet and palms of the hand. “Eyes torn out and laid on the rocks noses cut off ears cut off chins hewn off teeth chopped out joints of fingers brains taken out and placed on rocks with other members of the body entrails taken out and exposed hands cut off feet cut off arms taken out of sockets private parts severed and indecently placed on the person eyes, ear, mouth and arms penetrated with spear-heads, sticks and arrows ribs slashed to separation with knives skulls severed in every form, from chin to crown, muscles of calves, thighs, stomach, breast, arms, and cheek taken out. The Bozeman Trail 150th Anniversaries: 1867
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