07/12/1867
Carrying a dispatch to the Seventh Cavalry, then patrolling south of Fort Sedgwick in Kansas, Second Lieutenant Lyman S. Kidder and a detail of ten other soldiers, together with a Sioux scout named Red Bead had been intercepted and killed in a short fight two weeks earlier in present-day Sherman County, Kansas. Their attackers were a small combined force of Cheyenne Dog Soldiers and Oglala Sioux. Their decomposing and mutilated remains were discovered by the Seventh on this day.. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation:
"The Southern Plains, 1861-1877," in Charles M. Robinson III, The Plains Wars (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014), np.
"Indian War Scenes," Harper's Weekly Magazine, August 17, 1867, p. 514.