Troops at Fort Phil Kearny, Wyoming Territory, 1888, Exhuming Bodies of Soldiers Killed in the 1866 "Fetterman Fight"
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Artifact Overview
In 1866, members of Lakota (Sioux), Tsistsistas (Cheyenne), and Hiinono'ei (Arapaho) tribes wiped out Captain Fetterman and his command near Fort Phil Kearney, blunting U.S. efforts to establish outposts in the Powder River region of Wyoming and Montana. The soldiers' bodies were interred at the fort but were left when the military abandoned the post two years later. In 1888, U.S. troops returned to exhume the bodies.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
1888
Creators
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
30.803.14
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of George Dalgleish.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 3.75 in
Width: 5.875 in
Inscriptions
caption on front at bottom:
Photo by T. Dalgliesh, 188[?] / [. . .] KENNY LIFTING SOLDIERS MASSACRED AT FT. PHIL KARNEY [sic] WYO TER, 1876 [sic]
handwritten on back:
Soldiers from Ft. McKenny lifting bodys [sic] of soldiers killed by the Indians on Lodge Pole trail. I took 7 arrowheads out of one box (or coffin) owing to the alkili [sic] in the soil had all turned red.
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