In the woods near Apple Creek, on the banks of the Missouri in North Dakota, hostile Sioux Indians intercepted and killed with arrows, Lieutenant Frederick J.H. Beever an English-born and Oxford University educated and ordained Church of England clergyman carrying messages for campaign commander General Sibley. His body was found the next day. His short hair had made scalping difficult and the Sioux took part of his facial hair instead. Another enlisted courier, Private Nicholas Miller, was also killed the same day. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Doreen Chaky, Terrible Justice: Sioux Chiefs and U.S. Soldiers on the Upper Missouri, 1854-1868 (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012), 167.
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